When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGPeople need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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It’s going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don’t have the will.
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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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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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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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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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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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