But I am also concerned about our moral uprightness and the health of our souls. Therefore I must oppose any attempt to gain our freedom by the methods of malice, hate, and violence that have characterized our oppressors. Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why psychiatrists say, Love or perish. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a 20th-century American civil rights activist. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination
  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence

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