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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

Bernice King

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
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
If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.
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Criticism Issues Myself People
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
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
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Empowerment Equipment Fusion Generation Knowledge Ourselves Togetherness Violence
It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Beyond Lose Mom Pain Violence
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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Choice Decision Evidence Important Right
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
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.
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Arrest Election Freedom Join Mom Myself Politics Protest Victory
King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
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Change Live Social System Thinking Violence Way
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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Age Angry God Myself Remember Slow
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
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
As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
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Father Himself Legacy Peace Reflection
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
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

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