Martin Luther King Jr.255 definitions
Martin Luther King Jr.Agape (n.) is a love that seeks nothing in return.
Agape (n.) is disinterested love in which the individual seeks not his own good but the good of his neighbor.
Agape (n.) is love risen to a level where you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.
Agape (n.) is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is the love of God operating in the human heart.
Agape (n.) 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 (n.) is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men.
Agape (n.) does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes.
Agape (n.) makes no distinction between friend and enemy... it is directed toward both.
Agape (n.) is what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men.
Agency (n.) is ian is not mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
Alienation (n.) is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
America (n.) is, today, an extremely sick nation.
Anger (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) 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. (n.) is a question less importantly about who killed him and more importantly about 'what killed him'.
Beginning (n.) is risk-taking. One need not see the whole staircase to take the first step.
The Beloved community (n.) 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.
