We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWomen, 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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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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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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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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