We
are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of
destiny.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.
There
are some things in our social system to which all of us ought to be
maladjusted.
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the
disease of fear, only love can do that.
We
must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression,
and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
Before
it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclamations of
peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
One day we must come to see that peace
is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at
that goal.
We
must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
We shall hew out of the mountain of
despair, a stone of hope.
