"Pride (In the Name of Love)"

It’s 1980.  U2 are in America.  And James Henke, a journalist for Rolling Stone who is one of their biggest fans at that point, gives Bono a book called Let the Trumpet Sound.  It’s the biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  And Bono later claims…it changed his life.

Eventually it would also changed the focus of a song that he and the band were working on for their fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire.  But rather than give you a quote from that book, here’s something that Dr. King himself once wrote:

“Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that.  Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.  Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.  Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”