Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

Hate destroys the hater.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

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.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

Hatred makes us all ugly.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

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

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.