Showing posts with label Martin Luther King Jr.. Show all posts
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Please take a moment to honor Dr. King's memory today.

"Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated."
- Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958

"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."
- MLK Jr., Strength To Love1963.
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