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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.

Coretta Scott King

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Freedom Group Justice People Pieces Yourself
I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Brother Dreams People Room Sister
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
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.
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Commitment God Oneself People Purpose Willing
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Example Live Need People See
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
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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Children End Myself Program Thinking Vote Woman
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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End Freedom Generation Process Struggle Win 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
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Death Freedom Peace Society World
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 believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Freedom Myself Orientation Sexuality Tolerance
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Good Man Reminder Woman Yourself
Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Absence Himself People Way
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Greatness Hate Hurt Injury
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Nation Save Soul Woman Yourself

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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