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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIsn’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.
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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.
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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 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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People 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.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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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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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
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I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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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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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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