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.
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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Women, 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.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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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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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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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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The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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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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