"I’m concerned about a better world. I’m concerned about justice; I’m concerned about brotherhood; I’m concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr. on August 16, 1967, during his "Where Do We Go From Here?" speech in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tell me that statement--the REAL statement--is so vastly different from the "viral" quote going around. The allegedly misappropriated quote is merely a condensed version of this even LESS ambiguous statement on the concept that blood merely begets more blood.
I refuse to apologize for how I feel on this matter, and considering one "friend" has already called me a traitor and another took a very thinly veiled shot at me in front of a lot of people, I just needed to clear this shit up.
I am a very patriotic person. I LOVE THE CONSTITUTION. I LOVE my country and I know how lucky I am just to have been born here, so if you want to call me out, be my damned guest. Just know, that me thinking this way doesn't mean that I think you're wrong or awful if you disagree with me and feel something different. I merely respect the fact that you are entitled to your feelings where as apparently, you aren't doing me the same courtesy. So, as always, thanks for that.
