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.
Martin Luther King, Strength To Love, 1963 with thanks to Inward/Outward
In all our thinking and praying about Guantanamo Bay, the War on Terror, and the ramifications of British and American involvement in torture, "renditions" and so on, this is a good paragraph to keep in mind...
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