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.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.
You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.
We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
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