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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGStruggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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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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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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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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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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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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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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