More Martin Luther King

For some reason, in the last couple of days, I have come across a great deal of articles and quotes about and from Martin Luther King, this is a snippet from Tricycle magazine:

"We must meet violence with nonviolence. We must meet hate with love."


In these times when images of violence and anger fill our screens and airwaves, the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all those who refuse to answer anger with anger and violence with violence is more important than ever. King shows those who feel trapped by the cycle of violence and anger that there is another way.

King was at a meeting during the Montgomery bus boycott, when segregationists bombed his house. He rushed back and found his wife Coretta and their baby Yolanda unharmed. Outside his damaged home, an angry, armed black crowd confronted the white policemen at the scene. The situation was edging toward violence when King raised one hand to quiet the crowd. “I want you to go home and put down your weapons,” he said. “We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence.... We must meet hate with love.” According to the white policemen there that night, King’s calming words in the heat of racial violence saved their lives.

With his wife.