Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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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 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 greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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