I stumbled across a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. today that I somehow had never seen before:
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
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What struck me was not agreement. It was recognition. I have tried, imperfectly and often at cost, to live by that principle for years. Seeing it stated so plainly felt less like instruction and more like confirmation – language for a moral discipline I already understood.
That recognition raised a question I have been circling for a long time: why are conservatives so often told to keep King’s words out of our mouths? Why is his wisdom treated as
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