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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

Bernice King

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
BERNICE KING

Afford Manifestation Normal Presence
I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It’s still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, ‘Be slow to anger.’
BERNICE KING

Age Angry God Myself Remember Slow
Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.
BERNICE KING

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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.’
BERNICE KING

Conservatism Forum Liberal Myself People Race Time Togetherness
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
BERNICE KING

Beyond Lose Mom Pain Violence
Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
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Children Climb Demonstration Mom Strength Success Tree
Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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Blessing Correction Disguise Election Myself Opportunity
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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Choice Decision Evidence Important Right
My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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Himself Leadership Mom Need Occasion Partner Strong Wife
My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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Death Father Ourselves Preach Teaching
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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Better Count Growth Mom Nation Sacrifice World
My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.
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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.
BERNICE KING

Family Human Realization Small Strong Yourself
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
BERNICE KING

Centre Humanity Spiritual Time
Something big is going on. I’m talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
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Big Change Ourselves Persistence Refusal Society System Vote
What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
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Father Fools Fulfill Live Togetherness

Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.

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