Happy Martin Luther King Day from Elemental Herbs. Let’s celebrate the birth of one of this country’s greatest thinkers and activists by ruminating on a quotation from one of his famous speeches. It applies to all of life’s struggles, not just civil rights:
“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., from his Strength To Love speech, 1963
