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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.

Bernice King

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.
BERNICE KING

Angry Madness Mindset Ration Realization Yourself
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

Change Honesty Myself Noise Record Success Transformation
King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
BERNICE KING

Change Live Social System Thinking Violence Way
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
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
BERNICE KING

Accomplishment Identify Leadership Mom Myself
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
BERNICE KING

Choice Decision Evidence Important Right
When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
BERNICE KING

Leaving Myself Person Room Talk Transformation
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.’
BERNICE KING

Father Fools Fulfill Live Togetherness
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.
BERNICE KING

Carry Collection Community Destruction Ourselves Trauma
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
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
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
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
BERNICE KING

Conditional End Father Hope Myself Word
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.
BERNICE KING

Better Dedication Human Leadership Liberty Man Place World
At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
BERNICE KING

College Experience Life Myself Shock Time
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.
BERNICE KING

Himself Leadership Mom Need Occasion Partner Strong Wife

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.

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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.

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