"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
Topic(s):
Forgiveness
More From Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
- "The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
- "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
More In Forgiveness
- "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."― Indira Gandhi
- "It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits."― Lewis Thomas
- "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."― Elbert Hubbard