When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGHow many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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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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The 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.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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