The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
BERNICE KINGThe private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
More Bernice King Quotes
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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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Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.
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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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As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
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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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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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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn’t take classes, and I didn’t do anything to hone my skills.
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We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
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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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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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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
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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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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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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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Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King’s daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn’t bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.
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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.
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In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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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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The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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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 more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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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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