I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful and essential force for societal survival and overcoming negativity.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the profound and enduring nature of love, asserting that it is not merely an unrealistic ideal but a practical necessity for humanity. He argues that love serves as a counterforce against hate and evil, suggesting that the only way to break the cycle of hatred is through the conscious choice to love, which is vital for the survival and progress of civilization.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of compassion in modern society.
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.
The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,_x000D_ _x000D_ Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
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