In his song about Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney, the 3 civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964, Pete Seeger recalls singing in a black church when they announced that they had found the buried bodies. As he looked around he recalls, "I remember looking around the room seeing people's lips moving in prayer. I didn't hear anyone shouting for revenge; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Philosophy of non-violence made an impact. All these years later, I am more convinced that non-violence is the way the world will be saved. We must learn toforget revenge."
In a world that perpetuates war on the justification of revenge and now living in a country that justifies preemptive strikes to protect America and prevent terrorism, I believe we have already lost. In our war on terror we should heed the name. War and Terror are siblings of the same
parents: Violence and Power. Therefore the genetic makeup of War and Terror's children, that is the results of a War on Terror, is at best, disfigurement and at worst, death. We cannot use violence to overcome violent people for they will never truly change, but remain bitter and violent ambassadors of hate, waiting to for the day they can pounce yet again. We cannot overcome evil with evil whether we are talking about our homes or our countries, size is not the issue. The true issue is our souls.
