“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. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of now way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Civil Rights Leader
American Civil Rights Leader
Very well said! But the concept of justice is subjective I suppose. We all define it in our own terms according to our own circumstances and a personalized attitude towards life.
A very meaningful thought that we can’t establish truth or wipe out hatred through violence. Indeed, “Darkness cannot put out darkness.” We have to fight the darkness of ignorance in all aspects with the light of knowledge. Just as every night has a day, we too need to hope that the dark and dreary clouds of disillusion will disappear with the arrival of a new dawn as a harbinger of hope and expectation. But again as they say ‘Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper’. There should not be an overdose of anything not even hope. Rather our actions should match our expectations.
In the last line when the leader writes that the “arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”. But sometimes we feel that the innocent are punished..how do we justify that? It’s only time that’ll tell….
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hii..firstly, thanks for keeping his valuable words here..they carry a lot of meaning and i loved the way u understood his thoughts and put in ur words..
Keep going ...:)
How well said.Yes.Only the time will tell.
agreed that only innocent ppl are punished....
Something really to think about...may be time will reveal the answer. The post is well-thought out and superbly written, as always :-)
Well done!
There is a very fine line between innocence and ignorance. Some times both are misinterpreted. Good thought to dwell on. Nice post. Keep bring more :)
I think Martin Luther King was one of the greatest orators of all time. His ideas, his philosophy- simply brilliant.
Thanks for putting that up. I really enjoyed it. And like u rightly said in the follow up paragraph justice has it's own ways. We should not lose hope... but an over dose will make us sit on our asses and do nothing. We need to work now if we want to fix things for the future.
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