What do you mean by this quotation?

Question

"the glory of saving a country cannot be given to one who has contributed to its ruin. you believed that what crime and inequity had stained and deformed, more crime and more inequity could cleanse and redeem. this was error. hate only creates monsters, crime, criminals;only love can work wonders, only virtue can redeem. if our country in someday to be free, it will not be through vice and crime,it will not be through the corruption of its sons, some deceived, some bribed,redemption presupposes virtues;virtue, sacrifice, and sacrifice,Love!

Answer 1

very simply...LOVE NOT WAR.

Answer 2

Sounds like something a Utopian minister from the 1800's might have said.

Needless to say, they've been proved WRONG!

Answer 3

love others and be loved

Answer 4

To me, it just means what is basically says.  If you have helped ruin your or this country, then u can't be given any credit at all for saving your country.  It also says that if u are filled with hate, BAD things happen, and if you want the country to be free then LOVE will enable that to happen.  Sweet and clever quote.