I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
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Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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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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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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