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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

Coretta Scott King

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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Best Father Man Marriage Mom Representation Try
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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Embrace Live Philosophy Place
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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End Freedom Generation Process Struggle Win Yourself
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Advance Human Justice Life
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Change Individual Violence
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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Night Process Time Violence Yourself
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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Disappointment Divine Himself Human Man Movement Relative Time
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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Corruption General Image Kind Leadership Man Myself Woman
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
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Dignity Form Human Humanity People Person Race Seek
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Death Himself Live Man Worth
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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Issues Justice Myself People Race Talk
The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Bed Children Greatness Hungry Sleep Violence
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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Example Live Need People See
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Death Freedom Peace Society World
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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History Man Moments Need Spirit
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
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Call Himself Marriage Myself Prayer Rational

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