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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Potential Beauty Of Human Life Is

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. the oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." in spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

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