India, March 1 -- Today's quote of the day is "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." It comes from the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr., one of the foremost leaders of the American civil rights movement and a tireless advocate for justice and nonviolence. These powerful words appear in his 1963 sermon "Loving Your Enemies", later published in his influential book Strength to Love, a collection of sermons focused on the spiritual and ethical grounding of the struggle against racial segregation and oppression.

King delivered portions of this sermon from the pulpit of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and other venues during a period of intense civil rights activism, as ...