Impractical, Immoral

Impractical, Immoral
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence as a way of achieving justice is both impractical and immoral.

It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction

for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is

immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win

his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves

society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating

itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the

destroyers.

An army careerist mulls over the "global war on terror."

source: Nobel address, Oslo, December 11, 1964:

If I answer your prayer at once, it is because I am testing your faith.
Ifdid not answer your prayer at once, it is because I am testing your patience.
If I did not answer your prayer at all it is because I have a better plan for you.
-- Lord Krishna