While it’s tempting to “fight fire with fire”; we should always look for a better way.
Abraham Lincoln said; “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” What a world of human worth and dignity that sentence contains.
Today we are celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and beliefs — or are we? Martin Luther King, Jr., along with every other revered leader in the fight for equality, believed that equality and human worth are an unconditional and inseparable part of every act towards another human being — while many of those leaders who use his name; betray his beliefs.
“The path is made by walking.” – African Proverb
If you act to repress others; then that is the path that you make.
It doesn’t get plainer than that.