Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
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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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I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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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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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It’s going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don’t have the will.
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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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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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.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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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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