We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGHate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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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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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
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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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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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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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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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