Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWomen, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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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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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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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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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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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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