Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about love

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Love is the key that unlocks the door to ultimate reality.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Love is the most important weapon in the fight for justice.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about love part 2

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a sword that heals.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

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

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

The time is always right to do what is right.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.