Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long… — 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
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil… — 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
It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — 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 universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
