We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of s…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
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