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.
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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Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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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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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
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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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I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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