When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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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You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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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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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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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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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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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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
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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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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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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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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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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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