When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWithout Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
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A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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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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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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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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Isn’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.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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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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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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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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