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Violence diminishes our humanity.

Coretta Scott King

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
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
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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Believe Freedom Group Justice People Pieces Yourself
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
The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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Bed Children Greatness Hungry Sleep Violence
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
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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Death Himself Live Man Worth
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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Each Other Elimination Ignorance Learning Trust
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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Hate Himself Love Turn
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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Believe End Give Up Husband Life Myself Result
Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
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Leadership Nation Peace Preparation Strange Talk War
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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Blessing Discover God Greatness Life Willing Yourself
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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Black Force Myself People Requirement White Wrong
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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Good Man Reminder Woman Yourself
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
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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