I have decided to love

"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 too 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..,  he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality."
~Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967  ( from book by Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love." ~MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr had a thousand reasons to let  hate control his life: discrimination, incarceration, beatings, imprisonment, mental abuse, violence and threats of violence. Still he chose  to love.

   Let us follow his message. Love is the highest good.

The Lloyd Tenn photograph of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr (right) with Ernest Smatt (centre) and Don Bardowell, former Arawak Hotel manager, taken in Ocho Rios in the 1960s. It was here in Ocho Rios, Jamaica,while resting and reflecting in that beautiful climate,  that  MLK, Jr. wrote the book Where Do We Go From Here:Chaos or Community?

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