Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive.
Interpretation
Love holds the capacity to redeem and transform individuals over time.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that love possesses a profound power that can bring about change in people. He emphasizes the importance of persistently showing love and kindness, even when faced with resistance or negativity from others. He believes that such unconditional love can eventually lead to transformation and redemption, as individuals cannot withstand the weight of true love indefinitely, despite their initial reactions of guilt or enmity. Ultimately, love is portrayed as a powerful force that can lead to healing and change.
In practice
In a speech about community and acceptance, one might quote this to encourage people to show love towards those who struggle.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
LOVE is _x000D_ what gives joy _x000D_ to giving joy.
But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
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