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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

Bernice King

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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If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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Better Father Himself Improvement Life Place World
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, ‘At some point, we’ve got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.’
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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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I don’t know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It’s mad, and it just wants to destroy.
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My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
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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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How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
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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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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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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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Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

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