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Love Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

149 Love quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

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A chain breaking represents how love can cut through hate and evil, a powerful force that changes the world. The quotes speak of love as an unconditional promise that outlasts fear and disappointment. They also describe love as a steady foundation for peace and moral courage.

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Is is always time to do the right thing.

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Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

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Whom you would change, you must first love.

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Be the best of whatever you are.

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My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

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The self cannot be self without other selves.

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I've decided to stick with love.

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There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

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Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

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Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

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Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

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Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

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We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to…

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The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus,…

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Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use…

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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

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Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children…

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Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the…

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Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as…

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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live…

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I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone…

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And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer…

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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but…

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I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but…

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Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,…

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Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want…

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We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be…

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Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people…

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...love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to…

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Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force.…

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“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is…

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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts…

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Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything…

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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but…

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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes…

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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…

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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

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Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And…

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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

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What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

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The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

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The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

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Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,

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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

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