"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."
— Darkness

January 1, 1970

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Martin Luther King, Jr., "Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62.