If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGWhen aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
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I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
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I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
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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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If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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 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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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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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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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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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