Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Hurt

• And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. 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, Jr.

  Hurt, Men, Order

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

• I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hurt, Giving, Suffering

• The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hurt, Pain, Ease

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