Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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.
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Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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