Violence

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. 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."

---Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(15 January 1929 .. 4 April 1968)
Baptist minister and black civil rights activist; recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.

Theres not much that I can say to add on to these powerful words of Dr. King. Its sad to think that at his time of pain and suffering for people of difference is still going on in todays world. He was fighting mostly for black rights, but from his words you can feel that he was talking mostly for people of difference in every culture, race, sex or color. We all read the words of history in our schools, but how many of us LEARNED from the actions and words of HISTORY. The way the world is going...Maybe only few of us.

Andre E.