Coretta Scott King Quotes

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

The religion of humanity is love.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

We are all here on earth to help others.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.