Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes about Fear

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Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage, Fear, Mind

Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.119, Beacon Press

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspiring, Fear, Hate

"Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1957.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Kings, Fear

"Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King Jr., 1967.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Encouragement, Fear, Patriotic

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God, Fear, Science

Strength Through Love Ch. 13

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change, Pain, Fear

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”