Quotes about Empathy
Everybody can be great; you only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Third, we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding. At times we are able to humiliate our worst enemy. Inevitably, his weak moments come and we are able to thrust in his side the spear of defeat. But this we must not do. Every wood and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill that have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.