If 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 KINGMama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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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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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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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Freedom 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.
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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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