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.
It is time to put up a love-swing!_x000D_ Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they _x000D_ swing between the arms of the Secret One you love,_x000D_ Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes,_x000D_ and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night._x000D_ Bring your face up close to his ear,_x000D_ and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen.
Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
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