Hate is too great a burden to bear.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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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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When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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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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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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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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