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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.

Bernice King

Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
BERNICE KING

Angry Choice Love Oneself Upset Violence
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.
BERNICE KING

Control Friendship Goodness Mom Movement Togetherness Work
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
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.
BERNICE KING

Children Example Future Generation Justice Talk Yourself
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.
BERNICE KING

Himself Leadership Mom Need Occasion Partner Strong Wife
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.
BERNICE KING

Challenge Development Education Growth Guide Life People Perseverance Time Yourself
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
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Choice Decision Evidence Important Right
All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
BERNICE KING

Aspiration Beyond Commitment Life Ourselves
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.
BERNICE KING

Friendship Label Myself People True
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
Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
BERNICE KING

Existence Institutional Oppression Ourselves Race
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 KING

Age Angry God Myself Remember Slow
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.
BERNICE KING

Carry Collection Community Destruction Ourselves Trauma
Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
BERNICE KING

Family Food Friendship Movie Myself Occasion
In addition to a stronger focus on better training for law enforcement, America urgently needs programs to provide jobs and educational opportunities in economically depressed communities.
BERNICE KING

Addition Community Depression Job Need Program Strong Training
My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.
BERNICE KING

Death Father Ourselves Preach Teaching

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