“This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concerns beyond one’s tribes, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and “unconditional” love for all mankind. 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. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967, Riverside Church