Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: January 15, 1929 ~ April 4, 1968

April 4th, 2010

And I say to you,
I have also decided
to stick to love. For I know
that love is ultimately the only
answer to mankind’s problems. And
I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go.
I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some
circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when
I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.
And I have seen too much hate. I’ve seen to much hate on the
faces of sheriffs in the South. I’ve seen hate on the faces of too
many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in
the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see
it, I know that it does something to their faces and their
personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great
a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are
seeking the highest good, I think you can find it
through love. And the beautiful thing is that
we are moving against wrong when we do
it, because John was right, God is love.
He who hates does not know God,
but he who has love has the
key that unlocks the door
to the meaning
of ultimate
reality.

Prayers

for the dead are on the

same footing as gifts for the living.

The angel goes in to the dead with a tray of light,

bearing a cloth of light, and says, “This is a gift for you

from your brother so-and-so, from your relative

so-and-so.” And he delights in it just as

a living man rejoices

in a gift.

al-Ghazali