An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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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 you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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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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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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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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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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