Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGPeople have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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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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It’s going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don’t have the will.
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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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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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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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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A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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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, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
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