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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.

Bernice King

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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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.
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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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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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In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
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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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Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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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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My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.
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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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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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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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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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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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Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
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