Home » Quote » Jr. » „We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.“ „We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.“ — Jr. Tags:HateLoveSoul Related quotes „We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.“ — Jr. „We have come to the point where we are able to say to those who will even use violence to block us, we will match you capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet you physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws, because noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. And so throw us in jail, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.“ — Jr. „If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: «He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword». We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: «Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you». This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with the movement. Go home with this glowing faith and this radiant assurance.“ — Jr. „A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.“ — Jr. „But if physical death is the price that a man must pay to free his children and his white brethren from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing could be more redemptive. This is the type of soul force that I am convinced will triumph over the physical force of the oppressor.“ — Jr. „We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.“ — Ernesto Che Guevara „Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.“ — Paulo Coelho „But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.“ — Terry Pratchett