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I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

Coretta Scott King

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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Greatness Influence Ourselves People Reading Representation Thinking
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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Disappointment Divine Himself Human Man Movement Relative Time
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Death Freedom Peace Society World
You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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Believe Creation Emotion Home Human Investment Peace
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
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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Clothes Concept Fulfill Happiness Money Spiritual
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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History Man Moments Need Spirit
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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Embrace Love Method Transformation Violence Yourself
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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Act Country Deal Poverty Resource Willing
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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Children End Myself Program Thinking Vote Woman
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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Good Man Reminder Woman Yourself
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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End Freedom Generation Process Struggle Win Yourself
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
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Believe Freedom Group Justice People Pieces Yourself
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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Constitution Democracy Relationship Sex Sexuality Trouble
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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Hate Himself Love Turn
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Advance Human Justice Life

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