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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

Bernice King

Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
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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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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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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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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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Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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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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My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
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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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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 father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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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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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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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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