Love is the most durable power in the world.
Interpretation
Love is a strong and lasting force that can endure through time and challenges.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the enduring and powerful nature of love as a force that transcends difficulties and lasts over time. It suggests that love is not only a feeling but also a form of strength that can influence and change the world, reinforcing the idea that love is fundamental in creating lasting connections and social movements.
In practice
In a speech about community, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, love is the most durable power in the world, reminding us to build our efforts on compassion.'
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.
Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"_x000D_ _x000D_ "Yes. I want to ruin you."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
Love either finds equality or makes it.
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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