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Hatred Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting…
- Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
- A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
- You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
- Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than…
- By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children…
- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
- 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 enough. It is…
- The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward…
- When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes…
- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.…
- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
- 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 seen such hate…
- In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for…
- We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only…
- When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly…
- Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
More Hatred Quotes
- Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. — Francis of Assisi
- The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. — Marcus Aurelius
- Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred. — Michelle Bachelet
- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or… — Honore de Balzac
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Adams
- Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. — Jacques Barzun
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the… — Charles Baudelaire
- There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared… — Gary Bauer
- There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. — Max Beerbohm
- I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my… — Adele