Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

People must lean the strategies of non-violence as a skill for use in their homes, their work and in making social change….Violence is an inarticulate language.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Reject hatred without hating.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.