Hate is a dangerous force, and it is an injurious force, because it injures the object of hate as well as the subject of hate. It injures the hater as well as the hated. And this is why many are saying, “Love or perish.

Martin Luther King, in an interview with Studs Terkel that was recently rebroadcast on Democracy Now. Terkel later went on to ask King about “the revolutionary aspects of love.”