Speech Written on St. Helena’s Island, November 14, 1966 at Penn Center

Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder.

Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder the lie; it doesn’t establish

Truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder

Dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t

Murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere.

This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe.

It doesn’t solve any problems.