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  • Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

    Hate   Cutting   Men  
    "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
  • Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

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  • Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

    Love   Hate   War  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”
  • Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

    "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
  • The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

    Love   Funny   Life  
    "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.
  • Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

    "NYC Doubles Down on Petty Law Enforcement: Respecting Authority is What Democracy Is About" by Ed Krayewski, reason.com. July 28, 2014.
  • This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It relates to the idea of, Is this a householder practice or is it a monk practice? I think it's both. Everyone has that practice.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press
  • 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.

  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • Happiness is loving your enemies.

  • 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.

    "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.
  • Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

    Kings   Stars   Hate  
    "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.
  • Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

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

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.38, Beacon Press
  • Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

    Hate   Cutting   Evil  
    "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
  • He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

    Love   Forgiveness   Wise  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press
  • Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

    Life   Love Is   Men  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.24, Beacon Press
  • It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

    "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
  • If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

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

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press
  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press
  • When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

  • If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

  • There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press
  • There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

    "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
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