1. "I Have Decided To Stick With Love. Hate Is Too Great A Burden To Bear."
November 17, 2022
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1. "I Have Decided To Stick With Love. Hate Is Too Great A Burden To Bear."
Here are the top 99 Martin Luther King Jr Quotes About Kindness:
2. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
3. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
4. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
5. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
6. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
7. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'”
8. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
9. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
10. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
11. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
12. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
13. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
14. “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
15. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
16. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
17. “Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”
18. “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.”
19. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
20. “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
21. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
22. “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
23. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
24. “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
25. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”
26. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
27. “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
28. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
29. “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
30. “We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
31. “The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
32. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
33. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
34. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
35. “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
36. “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”
37. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
38. “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
39. “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
40. “The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.”
41. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
42. “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
43. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
44. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
45. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
46. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
47. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
48. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
49. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
50. “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
51. “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
52. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
53. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
54. “Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”
55. “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.”
56. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
57. “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
58. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
59. “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
60. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
61. “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
62. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”
63. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
64. “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who