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Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.

Bernice King

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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Accomplishment Artist Courage Leadership Mom Peace
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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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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Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
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Family Food Friendship Movie Myself Occasion
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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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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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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I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
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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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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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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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In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Arrest Mom Myself Politics Protest
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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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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After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.
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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.
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Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.
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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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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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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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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.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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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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Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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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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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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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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Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.

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