Quotes about Empathy
There will be no permanent solution to the race problem until oppressed men develop the capacity to love their enemies. The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh. Nonviolence, the answer to the Negroes' need, may become the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ? Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for the least of these.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes we have learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we have not learned the simple art of walking the earth as brothers and sisters.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.