Kindness

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

What does it mean?

Answering hate with more hate only makes things worse. Only love and kindness can end it, just as only light can end darkness.

Key vocabulary

drive out
force something to leave

Who said it?

Martin Luther King Jr.: American civil rights leader (1929–1968). Source: Strength to Love (1963).

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