Top 100 Love Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

#1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

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#2. Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

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#3. Jesus recognized that love is greater than like,

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#4. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love

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#5. Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.

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#6. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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#7. Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

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#8. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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#9. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

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#10. Watch out; success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.

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#11. The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

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#12. He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

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#13. This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, Come home, I still love you.

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#14. The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

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#15. In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

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#16. I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do

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#17. We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

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#18. Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

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#19. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater ... when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

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#20. Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

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#21. We must follow nonviolence and love.

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#22. When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

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#23. 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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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#24. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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#25. Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

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#26. You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

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#27. 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 ... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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#28. 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 dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

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#29. Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

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#30. 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 words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

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#31. Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

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#32. It was the Sermon on the Mount, rather than a doctrine of passive resistance, that initially inspired the Negroes of Montgomery to dignified social action. It was Jesus of Nazareth that stirred the Negroes to protest with the creative weapon of love. As

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#33. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil. The greatest way to do that is through love. I believe firmly that love is a transforming power than can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.

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#34. His headstone said
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST
But death is a slave's freedom
We seek the freedom of free men
And the construction of a world
Where Martin Luther King could have lived and
preached non-violence

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#35. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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#36. Loving Your Enemies ... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.

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#37. Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

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#38. We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.

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#39. I've decided to stick with love.

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#40. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

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#41. Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

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#42. Since crime often grows out of a sense of futility and despair, Negro parents must be urged to give their children the love, attention, and sense of belonging that a segregated society deprives them of.

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

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#44. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

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#45. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

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#46. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

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#47. Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

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#48. Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

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#49. I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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#50. Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

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#51. Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

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#52. Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

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#53. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

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#54. Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.

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#55. We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

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#56. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

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#57. We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

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#58. Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

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#59. "I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

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#60. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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#61. Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

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#62. We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

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#63. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

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#64. Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies ... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just
and God is with us.

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

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#66. Whom you would change, you must first love.

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#67. 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?

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#68. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.

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

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#70. We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

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#71. I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

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#72. It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

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#73. So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

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#74. We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

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#75. What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

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#76. Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

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#77. It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

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#78. Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.

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#79. [I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems ...

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#80. If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

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#81. Since you can't be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

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

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#83. Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

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#84. When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life
trust, love, mercy, and altruism
then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

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#85. For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.

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#86. Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots.

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#87. Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

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#88. Just as you won't enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won't even wait to learn from people you hate.

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

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#90. The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

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#91. Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

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

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#93. Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

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#94. The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

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#95. I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and
evil in the universe.

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#96. Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

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#97. Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

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#98. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

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#99. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

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#100. Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

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