I’ve seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. And I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I have also decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. Hatred darkens life love illuminates it.” I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war “If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.” In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race.” Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world.
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. “We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” “The foundation of such a method is love.” Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.” “Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.” It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. “Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. Writing a Powerful News Advisory For Your Press Conference.Campaign for a Department of Peacebuilding.
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