About this quote

In Loving Your Enemies (1957), King uses a direct appeal to responsibility to examine love, with attention to another, reason, enemies. The practical center is the relationship between self awareness and personality and hater, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.

When to use it

• A community organizer builds a meeting around another before participants choose one measurable action related to love.
• A teacher pairs the passage from Loving Your Enemies (1957) with a primary-source exercise about self awareness and public responsibility.
• A team leader uses the tension between reason and hater to discuss conduct under pressure.