When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGAn evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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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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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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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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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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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