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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Through our scientific genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We must come to see that no individual can live alone. We must all live together; we must all be concerned about each other.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends: Loveā€¦casts itself on people who, apart from sex, would be hateful, contemptible, and even abhorrent to us. But the will of the species is so much more powerful than that of individuals, that lovers overlook everything, misjudge everything, and bind themselves forever to an object of misery.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
- Audre Lorde