With regard to war, segregation, discrimination, prejudice and outright hatred, we can march, we can protest, we can shake our heads in sadness and incredulity, but the single most important thing to be done is to live the example of what is right and pure. Thus, preventing future generations from continuing on in this nightmare of oppression and violence.
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
This year MLK is sandwiched between the inauguration and my trip to the Gandhi monuments in India. Thanks for the post!
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