What Martin Luther King might have said to ZANU PF at this time

I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and I have see hate on the faces of too many ZANU PF youth and thugs to want to hate, myself; and every time I see it: I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up before our most bitter opponents and say: we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws and abide by the unjust system because non-cooperation with evil is as is much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good, and so throw us in jail and we will still love you. Bomb our homes, loot our stores, and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence, armed with AK47s, into our communities at the midnight hour and drag us out on some wayside road and leave us half dead as you beat us,  and we will still love you. Send your propaganda agents around the country and make it appear that we are not fit to rule,  but we will still love you. But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only freedom for ourselves, we  will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. It there is to be peace on Earth and in Zimbabwe and goodwill toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.

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