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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, preacher

Strength to Love, ch. 5 “Loving Your Enemies,” sec. 2 (1963)
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