Alveda King Quotes

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

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

A true man hates no one.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Love happens when people forgive.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.