You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThis 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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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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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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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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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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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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