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 KINGPeople 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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