My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
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Bernice King71 quotes“My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.”
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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
Bernice KingBernice King 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.
Bernice KingBernice King 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.
Bernice KingBernice King My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
Bernice KingBernice King 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.’
Bernice KingBernice King Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
Bernice KingBernice King 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.
Bernice KingBernice King Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
Bernice KingBernice King Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
Bernice KingBernice King Without 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.
Bernice KingBernice King I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
Bernice KingBernice King The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
Bernice KingBernice King Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
Bernice KingBernice King 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.
Bernice KingBernice King 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.
Bernice KingBernice King Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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Alan BersinAlan Bersin Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
Al FrankenAl Franken I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
Al FrankenAl Franken I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
Al FrankenAl Franken The Bush administration thought that once there is a democracy, everything else will fall into place. If today you speak to the architects of the 2001 Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, they will tell you that instead of being fixated on elections.
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