Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
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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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
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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.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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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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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.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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