How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
CORETTA SCOTT KINGMoney is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
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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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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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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 a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
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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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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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