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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGFreedom 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.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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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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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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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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