Source: This quote is from a speech “Loving Your Enemies” delivered at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, at Christmas, 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr. He actually wrote it while he was in jail for committing non-violent civil disobedience during the Montgomery bus boycott.

Complete Sentence: Upheaval after upheaval has reminded up that modern man is traveling along the road called hate, in a journey that will bring us to destruction and damnation. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one’s enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

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