Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

I do not believe in the law of hate.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

He refused to let hate make him hate.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.