If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.
BERNICE KINGEnvironmental 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.
More Bernice King Quotes
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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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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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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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We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
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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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Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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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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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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After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.
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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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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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I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
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Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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