People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGHate is too great a burden to bear.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
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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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You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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.
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I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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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.
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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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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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