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When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

Bernice King

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.’
BERNICE KING

Age Angry God Myself Remember Slow
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.
BERNICE KING

Control Friendship Goodness Mom Movement Togetherness 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
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
My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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Death Father Ourselves Preach Teaching
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
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
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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Change Fight God Head Ugly Willing
Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
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Children Climb Demonstration Mom Strength Success Tree
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
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
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
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
When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.
BERNICE KING

Country Drive Myself Policies Thinking
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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Acknowledgement Difficult Exception Law Mindset Oneself Terrible Tragedy
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
BERNICE KING

Angry Choice Love Oneself Upset Violence

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