We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe 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.
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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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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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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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.
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
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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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