Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.Agape is disinterested love in which the individual seeks not his own good but the good of his neighbor.
Agape is love risen to a level where you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.
Agape is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is the love of God operating in the human heart.
Agape is recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.
Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes.
Agency is ian is not mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
Anger aids one in writing well, praying well, and preaching well, for it quickens one's whole temperament, sharpens one's attention, and wipes away all mundane vexations and temptations.
The Appalling silence of the good people is the idea that good people who keep quiet in the face of injustice are a far greater bad than the strident clamor of bad people.
The Art of Acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
The Assassination of J.F.K. is a question less importantly about who killed him and more importantly about 'what killed him'.
Beginning is risk-taking. One need not see the whole staircase to take the first step.
The Beloved community is a global vision and the end-goal of non-violent movements whereby enemies are turned into friends and an all-inclusive sisterhood and brotherhood makes poverty, hunger, homelessness,, discrimination, bigotry, military power intolerable to all.
