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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Example Live Need People See
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Black Force Myself People Requirement White Wrong
Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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Disappointment Divine Himself Human Man Movement Relative Time
We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Black Community Launch National
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
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Night Process Time Violence Yourself
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Death Himself Live Man Worth
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
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Best Father Man Marriage Mom Representation Try
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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Children End Myself Program Thinking Vote Woman
I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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Determination Husband Myself Reality
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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Greatness Hate Hurt Injury
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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Challenge Sign Time Visible
Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Diminish Humanity Ourselves Violence
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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Action Karma Redeem Work
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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Character Freedom Nature Prison Violence
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
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Believe Freedom Group Justice People Pieces Yourself

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