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Martin Luther King Jr. on love

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person . . . they react in many ways in the beginning . . . sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOccasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageReturning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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