A friend of mine posted a quote on facebook as a counter reaction to all the joyous celebrations, off- and online, over the death of a certain well-known long-sought-for terrorist. The quote was credited to Martin Luther King and I'd only ever heard the end of it,
'Darkness cannot drive out darkness...' before. I was going to repost the quote on my fb-page too
but, I like to have at least few 'known', or more correctly 'trusted', sources to quotes I use and... I
couldn't find
any 'reliable' source that could assure me that the full quote indeed was MLK's. I did find
this though. So, rather than reposting a possibly fake quote I'll post the original, powerful quote
(which is good without any new (?) additions) which I
could find several 'reliable' sources to. :)
"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 hate for hate multiplies hate, 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."
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