Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness In Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You’d block your ears from a loud, piercing sound, and you’d put bandage on your scars to cover it from impurities. Just like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”, ; you’d expect that a opposite of something can beat or cure that thing. However, from time to time, from the smallest bickerings to historical events and terrorist acts, you’d see the pattern of hate and fear stacking on each other, with hopes that hatred can end itself. Often times, this method failed to completely solving the problem between the two sides; it just adds more hatred to the hate. Therefore, this universal aphorism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is proven to be timelessly true because without light, we’re blind as if without love, we’ll keep dwell deep into hate without solving the cause of the problem. To truly fathom the validity of the quote, we must understand the meaning of the quote and thus let discuss the first sentence of this quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, suppose that you’re in a cave, and there are two ends: one end with light and one end filled with darkness. You’d mostly run into the end with light in order to escape the cave. However, if you think that you’re brave and ventured deep into the cave where darkness awaits, there are dangers that you must consider. If there are no dangers, you’d probably end up lost. Similar to the prisoners in Socrates’ “Allegory