All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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