Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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It’s going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don’t have the will.
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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
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I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
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