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Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.

Bernice King

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.
BERNICE KING

Aspect Class Inheritance Myself Skill Style
Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
BERNICE KING

Blessing Correction Disguise Election Myself Opportunity
I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
BERNICE KING

Absence Cost Father Life Myself
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
BERNICE KING

Believe Division Effect Father Race 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.
BERNICE KING

Call Daughter Father Ministry Myself People
The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
BERNICE KING

Aggression Resistance Yourself
Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
BERNICE KING

Accomplishment Artist Courage Leadership Mom Peace
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.
BERNICE KING

Arrest Election Freedom Join Mom Myself Politics Protest Victory
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.
BERNICE KING

Environment Health Impact Injustice Minimal Moral Race Standard
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
BERNICE KING

Afford Manifestation Normal Presence
Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
BERNICE KING

Arrogant Feeling Heart Myself People Unfortunate
If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
BERNICE KING

Better Father Himself Improvement Life Place World
Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.
BERNICE KING

Family Human Realization Small Strong Yourself
My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
BERNICE KING

Administration Father Himself Learning Office Work
Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
BERNICE KING

Existence Institutional Oppression Ourselves Race
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.
BERNICE KING

Death End Father Mom Money Ourselves

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