Why go to India, isn’t there poverty and injustice right here??

Basically, I am going to Bangalore because injustice is there. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus sayth the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Norfolk and not be concerned about what happens in Bangalore. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives on this planet earth can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
With the exception of 7 words this is a direct quote from Martin Luther King Jrs., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. It was true in April of 1963 and it is true today. And so I go.
Meddy