Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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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I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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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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I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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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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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
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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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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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