A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching\u00a0<\/span>spiritual death.<\/span> The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of\u00a0<\/span>civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant\u00a0<\/span>animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.<\/span> Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.<\/span> Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.<\/span> Here are some quotes from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in honor of Martin Luther King Day: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching\u00a0spiritual death.Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/span>Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.<\/span><\/span>
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies\u00a0hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction\u2026.The chain reaction\u00a0of evil\u2013hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars\u2013must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of\u00a0annihilation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man\u2019s sense of values\u00a0and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false\u00a0and the false with the true.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,\u00a0begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.\u00a0Through violence you may murder the liar,\u00a0but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.\u00a0Through violence you may murder the hater,\u00a0but you do not murder hate.\u00a0In fact, violence merely increases hate.\u00a0So it goes.\u00a0Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,\u00a0adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.\u00a0Darkness cannot drive out darkness:\u00a0only light can do that.\u00a0Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
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