It seems to me that this line gets right to the heart of Invisible Man:
"Their hate, and mine, was charged with fear."
Our nameless protagonist speaks this line early in the novel, and I find it rife with implications. Throughout the novel (and history), it is fear that drives people to hate and to act upon that hate. Fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of stagnation. Any of these will cause resentment, and it is all too easy for that resentment to turn into hate.
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