king love quotes

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.


Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it

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

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.


Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

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

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

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.