All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
BERNICE KINGAll of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
More Bernice King Quotes
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Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.
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As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
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My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
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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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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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Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.
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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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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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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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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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When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.
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Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
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My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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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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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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Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.
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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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In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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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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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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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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