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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

Bernice King

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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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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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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Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.
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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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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela’s side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa’s first free elections.
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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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If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.
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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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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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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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Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
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Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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