black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Example Live Need People See
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
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Freedom Group Justice People Pieces Yourself
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Body Follow Heart Mindset Right Willing
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Easter Goodness Hope Life Moments
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Alone Greatness Sacrifice Willing Yourself
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Black Force Myself People Requirement White Wrong
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Character Freedom Nature Prison Violence
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Children Growth Life Myself Way White
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Chance Person Production Seek
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Night Process Time Violence Yourself
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Greatness Influence Ourselves People Reading Representation Thinking
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Death Freedom Peace Society World
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Freedom Myself Orientation Sexuality Tolerance

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Coretta Scott King Quotes