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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes about Understanding

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People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ill Will, People, Understanding

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Writing, Blood, Understanding
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Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Attitude, Understanding, Peaceful

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winning, Understanding, Aftermath

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winning, Beloved Community, Understanding
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.100, Beacon Press

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate, Understanding, Opponents

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wall, Hate, Understanding
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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