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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

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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Act Country Deal Poverty Resource Willing
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

History Man Moments Need Spirit
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Death Himself Live Man Worth
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

Believe Brother Dreams People Room Sister
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Each Other Elimination Ignorance Learning Trust
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Greatness Hate Hurt Injury
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
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Call Himself Marriage Myself Prayer Rational
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Family Money Necessary Oneself Support
The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Bed Children Greatness Hungry Sleep Violence
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Action Community Greatness Measurement Member
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Dignity Form Human Humanity People Person Race Seek
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Good Man Reminder Woman Yourself
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Blessing Discover God Greatness Life Willing Yourself
I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Determination Husband Myself Reality

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