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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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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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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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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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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
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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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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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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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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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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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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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