I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
BERNICE KINGIt is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
More Bernice King Quotes
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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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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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Some people feel like I’m arrogant. It’s unfortunate, because people don’t know my heart.
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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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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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If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.
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My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.
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The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.
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It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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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.
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Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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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.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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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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