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 KINGAn evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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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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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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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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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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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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.
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