Martin Luther King, Jr. Personality Quotations

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.... when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

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 the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

And I say to you, I have decided to stick with love, for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. For I have seen too much hate... every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities, and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.