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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGNonviolence first changes the individual.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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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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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes.
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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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