“It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.”

A bit ago, I had 2 people come up to me and tell me that they hate me... they don't really know me but they express a strong emotion such as hate. I suppose this post is my response to that.

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them." ~Charles Caleb Colton

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." ~Herman Hesse

HATE is a strong emotion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate

http://www.tolerance.org/10_ways/index.html

http://www.tolerance.org/campus/index.jsp

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/hate/

http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/hate_music_in_the_21st_century.htm

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1997.cfm