I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWe must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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.
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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.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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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.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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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.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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