If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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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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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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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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