Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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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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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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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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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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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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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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