Martin Luther King, Jr
January 15, 1929 ~ April 4, 1968
"Strength to Love" 1963
"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."
