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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

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
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
I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
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Community Division Generation Issues Myself Thinking
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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Attend Freedom Introduction Myself Occasion Struggle Volunteer
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
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
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Afford Manifestation Normal Presence
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
All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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Aspiration Beyond Commitment Life Ourselves
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
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
Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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Afraid God White
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
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Conditional End Father Hope Myself Word
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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Administration Father Himself Learning Office Work
When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.
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Country Drive Myself Policies Thinking
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
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Father Ground Moral Myself Nation
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.
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Call Daughter Father Ministry Myself People

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