It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
-
-
Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
CORETTA SCOTT KING