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.
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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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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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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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