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 violence for violence multiplies violence, 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. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength To Love, 1963

forsake not the wisdom of the founding fathers;
only the shroud of hate and foolishness which have been shrouded around them.
only the ignorance and selfishness required to pay for their inception.
only the once neccessarry evils which have become so rooted in humankind's image of this world that the common person can not seperate them from the proper course to the bright future promised...

... welcome to the dawn.

the hard course is never to die for your convictions-
the hard course is to truely live for them.