Quotes about Harmony

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.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to die together as fools.

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.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together.

Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout White Power! — when nobody will shout Black Power! — but everybody will talk about God's power and human power.

The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.

Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, "Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" This is the power of redemptive love.

Many white men fear retaliation. The job of the Negro is to show them that they have nothing to fear, that the Negro understands and forgives and is ready to forget the past. He must convince the white man that all he seeks is justice, for both himself and the white man.