Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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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Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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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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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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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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