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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.

Coretta Scott King

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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

History Man Moments Need Spirit
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Example Live Need People See
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Believe Freedom Group Justice People Pieces Yourself
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Greatness Hate Hurt Injury
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Children End Myself Program Thinking Vote Woman
People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Commitment God Oneself People Purpose Willing
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Blessing Discover God Greatness Life Willing Yourself
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Call Himself Marriage Myself Prayer Rational
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Alone Greatness Sacrifice Willing Yourself
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Conscience Force Powerful
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Brother Dimension Force International Peace Powerful Unity Woman World
Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Absence Himself People Way
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Change Individual Violence
Violence diminishes our humanity.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Diminish Humanity Ourselves Violence
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Burden Greatness Hate One Liner

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