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.
What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered
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