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
a liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor
establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the 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.
--Martin Luther King
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