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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI 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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIf Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGBecause 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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGJustice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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.
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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIt’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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIt doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIf 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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIf you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGIf sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGFreedom 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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGBehind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGNonviolence first changes the individual.
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