"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." ― Coretta Scott King Topic(s): Great More From Coretta Scott King "Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others." "I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation." "Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become." More In Great "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."― Bette Davis "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."― Jean Genet