My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
BERNICE KINGWhat 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.’
More Bernice King Quotes
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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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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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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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My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
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Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.
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Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.
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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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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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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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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
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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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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 provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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Something big is going on. I’m talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
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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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King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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My 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.
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Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
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In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn’t take classes, and I didn’t do anything to hone my skills.
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I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
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