Quotes about Empathy
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
— 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.
On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's inhumanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad. It is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bóng t?i không th? xua tan bóng t?i, ch? ánh sáng má»â€ºi là m ???c Ä'i?u Ä'ó. H?n thù không th? xóa b? h?n thù, ch? tình yêu má»â€ºi là m ???c Ä'i?u Ä'ó mà thôi.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil. The greatest way to do that is through love. I believe firmly that love is a transforming power than can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.