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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

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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Nation Save Soul Woman Yourself
We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Black Community Launch National
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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Greatness Hate Hurt Injury
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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Easter Goodness Hope Life Moments
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
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Example Live Need People See
The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Bed Children Greatness Hungry Sleep Violence
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
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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Commitment God Oneself People Purpose Willing
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.
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Clothes Concept Fulfill Happiness Money Spiritual
Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Diminish Humanity Ourselves Violence
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Advance Human Justice Life
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
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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Children End Myself Program Thinking Vote Woman
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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Each Other Elimination Ignorance Learning Trust
It 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.
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Change Opinion Positive Power Problem Strong Yourself

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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