Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Interpretation
Hate has a destructive impact on a person's character and perception, leading to a distorted view of reality.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights the corrosive nature of hate on an individual's personality and their ability to perceive the world objectively. When hate goes unchecked, it can change one's values, distort their judgment, and lead to a confusion between right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, undermining the very essence of their being.
In practice
In a speech about tolerance, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality.'
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.
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
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