Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Interpretation
Hate harms the person who harbors it more than its target.
Coretta Scott King's quote emphasizes the self-destructive nature of hate. It suggests that holding onto hate not only burdens the individual emotionally but also detracts from their own well-being and peace, while ultimately doing little to harm the one who is hated.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech on the importance of forgiveness.
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.
I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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