Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God’s will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
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How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
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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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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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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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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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