Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGStruggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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.
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If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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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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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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