Hatred and violence intensify the fears of the white majority and lessen their shame in their prejudice against blacks. Violence is immoral also because it deepens the brutality of the perpetrator of violence. He, too, is a victim. King contended that when another makes you hate him, he leads you to work against community and to defy harmonious creation. Through his hate, the hater becomes depersonalized because the design of creation demands that personality can be fulfilled only in community.
Hate is rooted in fear, and the only cure for fear-hate is love.
To meet hate with retaliatory, hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Violence may seek to eliminate evil, but it only intensifies evil. Only love can break the chain reaction of violence and evil. Although M.L. King, Jr. agreed with the cardinal tenets of Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, he differed from him in spirituality. Gandhi acknowledged that he had not found the Truth he sought.