Looking for some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most influential quotes?
Here are the top 14 most popular and powerful MLK quotes about love!
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
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“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
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“Love is the most durable power in the world.”
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MLK QUOTES ABOUT LOVE
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
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“Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”
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“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
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“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?'”
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MLK QUOTES ABOUT LOVE
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of the spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man but you refuse to hate him.”
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“Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys.”
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“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.”
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“I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.”
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“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”
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“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. 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.”
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