# Quote — Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

> [Martin Luther King, Jr.] concluded the learned discourse that came to be known as the 'loving your enemies' sermon this way: "So this morning, as I look into your eyes and into the eyes of all my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you,'I love you. I would rather die than hate you.'" Go ahead and reread that. That is hands down the most beautiful, strange, impossible, but most of all radical thing a human being can say. And it comes from reading the most beautiful, strange, impossible, but most of all radical civics lesson ever taught, when Jesus of Nazareth went to a hill in Galilee and told his disciples, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you."

- Author: [Sarah Vowell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-vowell.md)
- Book: [The Wordy Shipmates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-vowell/the-wordy-shipmates.md)
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