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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

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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Addition Control Game Movement Protest Violence
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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Choice Discover Education Entertainment Faith Force Future Global Government Law Media Ourselves Violence
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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Difficult Father Myself Question Young
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Beyond Lose Mom Pain Violence
Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn’t take classes, and I didn’t do anything to hone my skills.
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Aspect Class Inheritance Myself Skill Style
The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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Aggression Resistance Yourself
Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
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Arrogant Feeling Heart Myself People Unfortunate
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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Leaving Myself Person Room Talk Transformation
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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Accomplishment Identify Leadership Mom Myself
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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Himself Leadership Mom Need Occasion Partner Strong Wife
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privacy Responsibility
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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Centre Humanity Spiritual Time
What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
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Father Fools Fulfill Live Togetherness
One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
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Blame Foundation Myself Nation Person Problem Slave
Environmental 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.
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Environment Health Impact Injustice Minimal Moral Race Standard
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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Angry Choice Love Oneself Upset Violence

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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