I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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 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 KINGThe more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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 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 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 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 KINGJustice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWe have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGAn evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGA constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGThe greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGTo really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGAs 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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
CORETTA SCOTT KING