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 KINGSomehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.
More Bernice King Quotes
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The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
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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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We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
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The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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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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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
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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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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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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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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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