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.
BERNICE KINGSome people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
More Bernice King Quotes
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Often, I am asked, ‘What was your father like?’ or, ‘What would he think?’ These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.
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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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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 know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.
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The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother. We might very well have ended up on welfare.
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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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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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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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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.’
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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