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“Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.”

Source: “Where Do We Go from Here?”, speech in Atlanta, 16 August 1967

Context In the same address to the SCLC convention in Atlanta, he argued against answering hatred and violence in kind as the movement weighed its next steps.

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Martin Luther King Jr.United States · 1929–1968
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