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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

Bernice King

I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
BERNICE KING

Belief Believe Dignity Myself Name
My first introduction to South Africa’s struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother’s stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.
BERNICE KING

Attend Freedom Introduction Myself Occasion Struggle Volunteer
What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
BERNICE KING

Father Fools Fulfill Live Togetherness
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.
BERNICE KING

Better Father Himself Improvement Life Place World
Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
BERNICE KING

Blessing Correction Disguise Election Myself Opportunity
Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.
BERNICE KING

Family Human Realization Small Strong Yourself
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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Environment Health Impact Injustice Minimal Moral Race Standard
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.
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Control Friendship Goodness Mom Movement Togetherness Work
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
BERNICE KING

Emotion Force Justice Love Moral Powerful Weakness
I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
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Meditation Myself People Time
My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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Himself Leadership Mom Need Occasion Partner Strong Wife
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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Change Live Social System Thinking Violence Way
Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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Afraid God White
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.
BERNICE KING

Addition Community Depression Job Need Program Strong Training
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.
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Carry Collection Community Destruction Ourselves Trauma
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.
BERNICE KING

Believe Division Effect Father Race Violence

Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

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