Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIt 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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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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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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