…And so the first question that the Levite asked was, ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

Martin Luther King, from his “I’ve been to the Mountaintop Speech.” Delivered on April 3rd, 1968, the day before he was assassinated. For audio, refer to this link.
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Hate is a dangerous force, and it is an injurious force, because it injures the object of hate as well as the subject of hate. It injures the hater as well as the hated. And this is why many are saying, “Love or perish.

Martin Luther King, in an interview with Studs Terkel that was recently rebroadcast on Democracy Now. Terkel later went on to ask King about “the revolutionary aspects of love.”
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