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My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.

Bernice King

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
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.
BERNICE KING

Arrest Election Freedom Join Mom Myself Politics Protest Victory
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.
BERNICE KING

Arrest Mom Myself Politics Protest
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.
BERNICE KING

Children Climb Demonstration Mom Strength Success Tree
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
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 father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
BERNICE KING

Father Ground Moral Myself Nation
I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
BERNICE KING

Meditation Myself People Time
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
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
BERNICE KING

Choice Discover Education Entertainment Faith Force Future Global Government Law Media Ourselves Violence
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
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?
BERNICE KING

Change Fight God Head Ugly Willing
I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
BERNICE KING

Absence Cost Father Life Myself
My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
BERNICE KING

Administration Father Himself Learning Office Work
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
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
BERNICE KING

Afford Manifestation Normal Presence

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