“Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p.xv
Context: Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.
“Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Ruperto Santos (1957) 21st-century Catholic Bishop of Balanga
Source: Church leaders hail Philippine peace deal http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2017/04/07/church_leaders_hail_philippine_peace_deal/en-1304176 (2017)
“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”
Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist
Source: The Princess Diarist
“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise”
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Remarks Intended for Delivery to the Texas Democratic State Committee in the Municipal Auditorium in Austin
Larry Hogan (1956) American politician
" Inaugural Address http://governor.maryland.gov/2015/01/21/inaugural-address-governor-larry-hogan/" (21 January 2015)
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
Love's Pilgrimage (1911)
Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, The Genius of America (1924)
Context: This is the main thought which your presence here brings to my mind. Let us maintain all the high ideals which have been characteristic of our different races at home. Let us keep our desire to help other lands as a great and broad principle, not to help in one place and do harm in another, but to render assistance everywhere. Let us remember also that the best method of promoting this action is by giving undivided allegiance to America, maintaining its institutions, supporting its Government, and, by leaving it internally harmonious, making it eternally powerful in promoting a reign of justice and mercy throughout the earth.