I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
CORETTA SCOTT KINGI’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality.
More Coretta Scott King Quotes
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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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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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
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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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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 a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
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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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Nonviolence first changes the individual.
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You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.
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When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
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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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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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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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