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When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
Coretta Scott King
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Coretta Scott King
Age: 78 †
Born: 1927
Born: April 27
Died: 2006
Died: January 30
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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 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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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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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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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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...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
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Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
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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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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
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The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
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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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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
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The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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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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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
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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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