Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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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.
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I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
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When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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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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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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