Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
BERNICE KINGMy mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired ‘A Time to Remember’ to mobilize a movement for gun control.
More Bernice King Quotes
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Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.
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In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.
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Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
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Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King’s daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn’t bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.
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Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
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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.’
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My first introduction to South Africa’s struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother’s stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.
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We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
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Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
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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.
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One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
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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.’
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