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Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)
Fri Jul 8, 2016, 11:12 AM Jul 2016

Keeping you and those who have been taken in our hearts Dr. King..

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Keeping you and those who have been taken in our hearts Dr. King.. (Original Post) Peacetrain Jul 2016 OP
Indeed frazzled Jul 2016 #1
Yep... somethings just ring true and straight to the heart at times.. Peacetrain Jul 2016 #2
Hear, hear! G_j Jul 2016 #3
Thank you emulatorloo Jul 2016 #4

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
1. Indeed
Fri Jul 8, 2016, 11:38 AM
Jul 2016

Even though I've read this quotation a dozen times already today, I stopped and read it again.

Peace.

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