Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.
Interpretation
Loving one's enemies is essential for the survival of civilization.
In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes that love, even for those who oppose us, is crucial for maintaining harmony and peace in society. He suggests that this form of love transcends mere idealism and is a vital necessity for the world to thrive, highlighting the transformative power of love in overcoming hatred and conflict.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech about conflict resolution.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.
She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky She will never close her eyes And she does not let me sleep And her dreams in the bright day Make the suns evaporate And me laugh cry and laugh Speak when I have nothing to say
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
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