Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGHow many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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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.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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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.
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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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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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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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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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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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