Loving Your Enemies - Sermon by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Loving Your Enemies

Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Montgomery, Alabama, 17 November 1957.

Summary

Dr. King preaches on Jesus' commandment to love our enemies and suggests that while this is a very difficult thing to, it is both possible and essential for one to live as a good Christian or a good human being. It is a shining example of the philosophy of Nonviolence and Christian pacifism.
How does he suggest learning to love your enemies? Dr King suggests that the first step is to look deeply at ourselves and to acknowledge that in each person we dislike there is still some good qualities that we can admire and love them in spite of it ("within the worst of us, there is some good").

Famous Quote from Loving Your Enemies

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. "
- Martin Luther King

Commentary

This quote went "viral" on the internet, after the killing of Osama Bin Laden by the US government. While the mainstream news hailed the killing and many people celebrated the killing as a victory and even danced in the street, many others including myself agreed with Dr. King, feeling that no death should ever be celebrated and that responding to violence with violence will never solve our world's problems, but as Mahatma Gandhi, one of Dr. King's primary sources of inspiration said, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".

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