It is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It wants to humiliate the opponent rather than to win his understanding. It seeks to injure rather than to redeem the other. Violence is opposed to creativity and wholeness, aims to destroy community, and renders brotherhood impossible. 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.