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The old law of an eye for an eye leves everybody blind.
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Quote used by some prominents including M.L.K.Jr. Text quoted on the credits of Spike Lee's 1989 movie Do the Right Thing (40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks (Universal Pictures). Event occurs at 01h52m12s, and in Coretta Scott King's book The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Second Edition, Newmarket Press, 2008, ISBN: 1557048150, 9781557048158. 128 pages.)

 

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I am content to live it all again
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,
A blind man battering blind men;
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The folly that man does
Or must suffer, if he woos
A proud woman not kindred of his soul.

 

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Being slaves without a lord,
By one blind idiot world obeyed,
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