Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Interpretation
Hate harms the person who harbors it more than its target.
Coretta Scott King's quote emphasizes the self-destructive nature of hate. It suggests that holding onto hate not only burdens the individual emotionally but also detracts from their own well-being and peace, while ultimately doing little to harm the one who is hated.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech on the importance of forgiveness.
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
the better angels of our nature
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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