Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
BERNICE KINGWithout 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.
More Bernice King Quotes
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If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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I don’t know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It’s mad, and it just wants to destroy.
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My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.
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When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother. We might very well have ended up on welfare.
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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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Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
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Often, I am asked, ‘What was your father like?’ or, ‘What would he think?’ These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.
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Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
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In addition to a stronger focus on better training for law enforcement, America urgently needs programs to provide jobs and educational opportunities in economically depressed communities.
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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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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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What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.
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When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.
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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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