Understanding Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and…

— 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

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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