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.
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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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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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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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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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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