When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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.
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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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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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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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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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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child.
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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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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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