Hate is too great a burden to bear.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGNelson 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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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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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Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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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.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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