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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Coretta Scott King

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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Bed Children Greatness Hungry Sleep Violence
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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Corruption General Image Kind Leadership Man Myself Woman
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
Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Diminish Humanity Ourselves Violence
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
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Call Himself Marriage Myself Prayer Rational
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
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
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
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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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Death Himself Live Man Worth
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
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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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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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Commitment God Oneself People Purpose Willing

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