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.
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