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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.

Bernice King

The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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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 spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
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Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.
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How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
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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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Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter – we’ve seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn’t see in Daddy’s era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.
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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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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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I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
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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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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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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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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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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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