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.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGAs 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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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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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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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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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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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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