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 KINGAmong her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
More Bernice King Quotes
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Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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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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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.
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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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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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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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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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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.
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I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It’s still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, ‘Be slow to anger.’
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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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Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
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Something big is going on. I’m talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
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