Love and Peace

Reflections of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

This year Martin Luther King Day falls on Monday, January 21.  We’d like to take a moment to reflect on his legacy of Peace and Love and have gathered a few quotes that we feel are particularly meaningful and relevant.

1) I have decided to stick with love.  Hate is too great a burden to bear.

2) Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

3) At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

4) Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

5) 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.

6) Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

7) We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.

8) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.  Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.  Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

9) The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

10) There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

11) Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.  Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.  The foundation of such a method is love.

12) Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit.  You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

13) Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

14) It is not enough to say we must not wage war.  It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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