As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
BERNICE KINGEach of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
More Bernice King Quotes
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My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired ‘A Time to Remember’ to mobilize a movement for gun control.
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Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
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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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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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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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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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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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Something big is going on. I’m talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
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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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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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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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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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Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
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