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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Martin Luther King Jr. was a 20th-century American civil rights activist. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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