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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

Bernice King

The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privacy Responsibility
King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
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The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
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Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, ‘At some point, we’ve got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.’
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In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
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Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela’s side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa’s first free elections.
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How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
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Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
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Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
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Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.
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