Hate Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hate destroys the hater...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater… when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

— Martin Luther King, Jr