Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
...love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share