Martin Luther King, Jr. Ill Quotations

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.