If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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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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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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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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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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Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who’ve suffered, who’ve been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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