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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.

Bernice King

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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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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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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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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You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.
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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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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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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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Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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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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Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.
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We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
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