We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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