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As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.

Bernice King

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
BERNICE KING

Encourage Goal Life Refusal
My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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Conflict Father Guidance Important Myself
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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Challenge Development Education Growth Guide Life People Perseverance Time Yourself
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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Choice Decision Evidence Important Right
I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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Absence Cost Father Life Myself
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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Believe Division Effect Father Race Violence
Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
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Arrogant Feeling Heart Myself People Unfortunate
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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Addition Community Depression Job Need Program Strong Training
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
People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can’t be true.
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Friendship Label Myself People True
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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Children Climb Demonstration Mom Strength Success Tree
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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Better Dedication Human Leadership Liberty Man Place World
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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Angry Madness Mindset Ration Realization Yourself
One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
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Blame Foundation Myself Nation Person Problem Slave
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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Big Change Ourselves Persistence Refusal Society System Vote
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
BERNICE KING

Afford Manifestation Normal Presence

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