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.
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.
I'm trying to get Americans to see that we're all pretty much the same. I believe it; I was taught God doesn't have a color. I want to better the planet a little bit.
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
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