On Enemies

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.”

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink.”

“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

“It is the way of the Tao to consider what is small as great, and a few as many; and to recompense injury with kindness.”

“Some one said, What do you say concerning the principle that injury should be recompensed with kindness? The Master said, With what then will you recompense kindness? Recompense injury with justice.”

“Repel evil with what is better: then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate.”

“Take care not to feel towards the inhuman as they feel towards men.”

“Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us! Among men who hate us let us dwell free from hatred!”

“My nature is for mutual love, not hate.”

“I resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”