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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.

Coretta Scott King

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Bed Children Greatness Hungry Sleep Violence
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Action Community Greatness Measurement Member
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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Good Man Reminder Woman Yourself
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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Action Karma Redeem Work
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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Nation Save Soul Woman Yourself
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
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Night Process Time Violence Yourself
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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Embrace Live Philosophy Place
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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Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
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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Believe Creation Emotion Home Human Investment Peace
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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End Freedom Generation Process Struggle Win Yourself
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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Dignity Form Human Humanity People Person Race Seek
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child.
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Children Growth Life Myself Way White
Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
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Abuse Job People Permanent Protection Right
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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Hate Himself Love Turn
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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Black Force Myself People Requirement White Wrong
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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Absence Himself People Way

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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