The Beloved Community Quotes

#1. The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

Cleveland Sellers

#3. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

Orson Scott Card

#4. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

Bell Hooks

#6. If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

Bell Hooks

#7. Our goal is to create a beloved community and
this will require a qualitative change in our souls
as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

Martin Luther King Jr.