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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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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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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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