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violence
curse
justification
honor
Presbyterian
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Since there is no death, in your terms, there is no murder. We will have some long sessions dealing with this matter, but I tell you all now—no good will come of violence. The gains that seem to be won will end in the violence of those who bring them about. The violence will be reborn in them. It will be part of their reality, and others will turn against them. This applies to any people at any time.
If there is one message I would give to you all, it is that there is no justification for killing—there is no justification for hatred—there is no justification for violence. It may occur, but those who indulge in violence are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated. They are no longer the selves that they were.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
Not in your physical time, but within the next hundred years, that time may come... (phrase omitted)... but when it comes, and if it comes soon it will come as a miracle. For it will come when every man realizes that killing is wrong, and when every young man in every country refuses to go to war, and when he refuses to curse any man or any flower. You do not defend any idea with violence. With violence you kill an idea.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
