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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.

Coretta Scott King

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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Call Himself Marriage Myself Prayer Rational
The 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.
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Challenge Sign Time Visible
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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Act Country Deal Poverty Resource Willing
As 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.
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Children Growth Life Myself Way White
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Burden Greatness Hate One Liner
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Change Individual Violence
If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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Embrace Live Philosophy Place
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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Disappointment Divine Himself Human Man Movement Relative Time
If 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.
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Believe End Give Up Husband Life Myself Result
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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Corruption General Image Kind Leadership Man Myself Woman
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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Absence Himself People Way
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.
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Brother Dimension Force International Peace Powerful Unity Woman World
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.
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Believe Brother Dreams People Room Sister
When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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Body Follow Heart Mindset Right Willing
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Action Community Greatness Measurement Member
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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Greatness Influence Ourselves People Reading Representation Thinking

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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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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