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.
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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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
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If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
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If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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