I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGBehind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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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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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. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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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 the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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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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