Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
BERNICE KINGLike 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.
More Bernice King Quotes
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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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You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.
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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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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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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.
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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Often, I am asked, ‘What was your father like?’ or, ‘What would he think?’ These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.
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What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
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Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.
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The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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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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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
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People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can’t be true.
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