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Mélanie Berliet

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“The command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Loving Your Enemies
Tagged: Love Your Enemy, golden rule, Law of Reciprocity, Treat Others as You Want To Be Treated
“Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning. It is the lifting of a burden or the canceling of a debt.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Loving Your Enemies
Tagged: Forgivenes, I'm Sorry
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Loving Your Enemies
Tagged: Hope, The Power of Love, Love Trumps Hate, Be Kind
“War is not the answer.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Tagged: Non-Violence, Against War
“The rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers' keeper because of the interrelated structure of reality.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Quest for Peace and Justice
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Connectionism, Part and Parcel, We Are All One, Rich and Poor, Wealth Gap
“We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Quest for Peace and Justice
Tagged: Love Trumps Hate
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Quest for Peace and Justice
Tagged: Non-Violence, Against Violence
“The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream
Tagged: Race relations
“I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Through The Storm
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream
Tagged: Freedom