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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.

Coretta Scott King

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.
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Chance Person Production Seek
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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Brother Dimension Force International Peace Powerful Unity Woman World
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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Best Father Man Marriage Mom Representation Try
If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
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Believe End Give Up Husband Life Myself Result
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.
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Character Freedom Nature Prison Violence
Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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Believe Family Money Necessary Oneself Support
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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History Man Moments Need Spirit
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Advance Human Justice Life
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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Absence Himself People Way
We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Black Community Launch National
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Action Community Greatness Measurement Member
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Death Himself Live Man Worth
I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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Determination Husband Myself Reality
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.
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Dignity Form Human Humanity People Person Race Seek
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.
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Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
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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Clothes Concept Fulfill Happiness Money Spiritual
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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Night Process Time Violence Yourself
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.
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Children Growth Life Myself Way White
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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Each Other Elimination Ignorance Learning Trust
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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Constitution Democracy Relationship Sex Sexuality Trouble
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.
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Greatness Influence Ourselves People Reading Representation Thinking
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Black Force Myself People Requirement White Wrong
Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
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Abuse Job People Permanent Protection Right
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Change Individual Violence
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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Blessing Discover God Greatness Life Willing Yourself
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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Greatness Hate Hurt Injury
It’s going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don’t have the will.
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Act Country Deal Poverty Resource Willing

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