Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Eyes

• He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Philosophy, Hate

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Winning

• 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.

  Forgiveness, Eye, Teeth

• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

• The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eye, Differences, Dreamer

• The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Eye, Leaving

• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

• So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Happiness, Fear, Eye

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

• There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, 'This isn't the way.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Believe

• The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Revenge, Ocean

• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Philosophy, War

• The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eye, Law, Blind

• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Eye, Law

• But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Moving, Eye

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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