Martin Luther King Jr.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.