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 KINGWe must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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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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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
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Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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