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Francis and the Wolf Details
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence your may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King
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"Francis felt sympathy for the wolf. There was something of the wolf in all of nature, that ravenous hunger, that restless pursuit, that baring of fangs, so symbolic of what was wild and violent in all of us.... Everyone feared wolves and disliked them, and he saw in the eyes of wolves a fear, a hunted look, an anger and hostility that wanted to devour everything in sight in order to avenge their own hurt and alienation. Wolves, after all, where like people. If you feared them and ostracized them..., they eventually turned into what you were afraid they were anyway."
From Murray Bodo's book Francis: The Journey and the Dream
Ruben Dario's Los Motivos del Lobo (in spanish)
 Audio of Los Mostivos del Lobo
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