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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
         

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.


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