Can We Find Peace Without Justice?
3 min readFeb 28, 2020
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr
On a recent visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., I was struck by this quote. I stood frozen, reading and re-reading these words. It left me with a question. “Can we find peace where there has been no justice?”