I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a strong rejection of hate, emphasizing the desire for love and understanding instead.
Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights the power of love over hate, stemming from his experiences with the pervasive nature of hatred in society. He articulates a personal commitment to reject anger and animosity, suggesting that instead of perpetuating hate, one should embrace compassion and understanding, thereby fostering a more loving world.
In practice
In a speech promoting unity, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.'
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.
The gift you offer another person is just your being.
Absence - that common cure of love.
There is always some madness in love.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
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