Quotes about Conflict
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Casualties of war keep alive post war hate.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty. But we must move on. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.