The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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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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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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