“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”

I think this quote of him actually applies to the current era a way more than before. I have a tremendous amount of respect for this person and what he stood for. Sometimes, when we become mad at “other” people, we could try going through some of the speeches of Dr. King to cool ourselves down.