Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out

It is a war to the death between good and evil. We must fight fire with fire.

It is by no means surprising that prejudices and resentments, which for years were so assiduously cultivated and so violently inflamed, should not have been turned into affection by a defeat; nor are they likely to disappear as long as the southern people continue to brood over their losses and misfortunes. They will gradually subside when those who entertain them cut resolutely loose from the past and embark in a career of new activity on a common field with those whom they have so long considered their enemies.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

Everything evil is revenge.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

There is no good war.

One war only breeds another.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.