The other thing that we must do in order to love the enemy neighbor is this: we must seek at all times to win his friendship and understanding rather than to defeat him or humiliate him. There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him, but in order to love the enemy … [ Read more ]
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy
Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great. Because greatness is determined by service.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Source: HBS Working Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice, a structure, which produces beggars, needs restructuring.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the concerns of all humanity.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?
To ignore evil is to become … [ Read more ]
Authors: Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr. | Subject: Uncategorized
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Subjects: Character, Family & Friends, Life & Society, Miscellaneous, Relationships
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, “is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “is it popular?” But conscience asks the question, “is it right?”
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Subjects: Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Principles, Psychology | Behavior