Older, but no wiser
Andy Borrows' musings on life and all its confusion, contradictions, richness and opportunities
Friday, August 29, 2003
Connections
Heart@Work reminds me that its 40 years since Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.
Hearing the news this morning of the release of the 9/11 emergency message transcripts, I wondered what possible good could come from this action and was reminded or another of King's speeches:
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, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963
Let the juxtaposition of those two news items speak for itself...
Hearing the news this morning of the release of the 9/11 emergency message transcripts, I wondered what possible good could come from this action and was reminded or another of King's speeches:
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, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963
Let the juxtaposition of those two news items speak for itself...
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