Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity
presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you
must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the
person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the
person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false
rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an
opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a
recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to
make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the
meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental
something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal
to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its
great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems.
Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you
seek to defeat the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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