
“We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.”
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. And history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.