Words: “Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness …”

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.

Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence,
and toughness multiplies toughness
in a descending spiral of destruction...

The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars -
must be broken,
or we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation."

~~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

Civil rights leader, Orator
Husband, father
pastor, activist, humanitarian
Leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 1964

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