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Nonviolence first changes the individual.

Coretta Scott King

You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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Believe Creation Emotion Home Human Investment Peace
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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Embrace Live Philosophy Place
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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Conscience Force Powerful
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
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Dignity Form Human Humanity People Person Race Seek
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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Absence Himself People Way
Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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Disappointment Divine Himself Human Man Movement Relative Time
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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Children Growth Life Myself Way White
I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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Determination Husband Myself Reality
Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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Change Individual Violence
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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History Man Moments Need Spirit
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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Nation Save Soul Woman Yourself
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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Call Himself Marriage Myself Prayer Rational
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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Brother Dimension Force International Peace Powerful Unity Woman World
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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End Freedom Generation Process Struggle Win Yourself
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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Abuse Job People Permanent Protection Right
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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Action Karma Redeem Work

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