Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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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You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
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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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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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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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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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