“Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes · Page 3
1929 – 1968
American Baptist minister and civil rights activist whose leadership was instrumental in the American civil rights movement. His words on justice, love, and courage endure as moral touchstones.
“Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”
“I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good.”
“We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
“How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.”
“We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”
“Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.”
“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”
“We have been in the mountain of moral and ethical relativism long enough.”
