Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Try to feel and give only love and compassion to every one; you will be happy. Don't judge or hate anything. You will be unhappy.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.