Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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Martin Luther King Jr.Loving Your Enemies sermon (1957)
About Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement. (1929-1968)
More from Martin Luther King Jr.
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Loving Your Enemies sermon (1957), published in Strength to Love (1963)
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I Have a Dream speech (1963)
- Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'Sermon, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Strength to Love (1963)
- Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.The Drum Major Instinct sermon (1968)
- The time is always right to do what's right.Address at Oberlin College (1964)
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- When you lift up women, you lift up humanity.Melinda French Gates
- Service is the highest human calling.Tom Peters
- Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.Maya Angelou
- You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.Maya Angelou
- Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.William Shakespeare
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