
Fuente: Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62.
Variante: «La oscuridad no puede conducirte fuera de la oscuridad: sólo la luz puede hacer eso.
El odio no puede conducirte fuera del odio; sólo el amor puede hacer eso»
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Fuente: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Contexto: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Fuente: Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62.
Sin fuentes
“Se puede hacer mucho con el odio, pero más aún con el amor.”
Sin fuentes
“Si no se puede enseñar el amor, ¿se puede enseñar el odio?”
Original: «I love Donald Trump. I don’t want to answer his hate with hate. I’m going to answer it with love. I’m not going to answer his darkness with darkness».
Fuente: Scott, Eugene (en inglés). «Cory Booker responds to Trump: 'I love you, Donald'.» https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/26/politics/cory-booker-donald-trump-speech-tweets/index.html CNN. Consultado el 4 de octubre de 2019.