When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother. We might very well have ended up on welfare.
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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.
More Bernice King Quotes
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When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother. We might very well have ended up on welfare.
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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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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.
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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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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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