Quotes about Harmony
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.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
— 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.
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
— 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.
We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to die together as fools.
— 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.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.