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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Coretta Scott King

It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
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Change Opinion Positive Power Problem Strong Yourself
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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Believe Family Money Necessary Oneself Support
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
Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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Embrace Love Method Transformation Violence Yourself
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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Action Karma Redeem Work
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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Constitution Democracy Relationship Sex Sexuality Trouble
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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Nation Save Soul Woman Yourself
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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Alone Greatness Sacrifice Willing Yourself
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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Leadership Nation Peace Preparation Strange Talk War
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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Believe End Give Up Husband Life Myself Result
We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Black Community Launch National
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
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Advance Human Justice Life
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Death Freedom Peace Society World
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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Blessing Discover God Greatness Life Willing Yourself

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