Coretta Scott King Quotes

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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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  Strong, Mistake, Power

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  The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

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  Teamwork, Greatness, Compassion

  Coretta Scott King's address at Georgia State University, February 15, 2000.

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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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  Inspiring, Freedom, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds (2017). “My Life, My Love, My Legacy”, p.330, Henry Holt and Company

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  When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

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  Heart, Mind, Body

  "Bush Makes State of the Union Speech, Senate Confirms Alito". CNN Student News, www.cnn.com. February 01, 2006.

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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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  Freedom, Believe, Justice

  Press Conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994, Washington D.C., June 23, 1994.

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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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  Women, Believe, Soul

  "Daughters of the Promised Land, Women in American History" by Page Smith, (p. 273), 1970.

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• Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

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  Powerful, Believe, Unconditional Love

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• I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

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  Mother, Children, School

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  Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.

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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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  Powerful, Brotherhood, World

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• When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

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  Life, Sacrifice, Causes

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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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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  Ignorance, Mistrust

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• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

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  Religious, Believe, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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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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  Men, Good Man, Good Woman

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Believe, Memorable, White

  "The Last Word : A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, (p. 99), 1992.

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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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  Husband, Believe, Thinking

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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. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' 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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  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

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• Violence diminishes our humanity.

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  Humanity, Violence, Diminish

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• People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

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  People, Role Models, Example

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• The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

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  Children, Bed, Violence

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• Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

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  Past, Giving, Kind

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• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

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  Racism, People, Humanity

  Chicago Defender newspaper, April 01, 1998.

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• All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

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  Wisdom, Country, America

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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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  Men, Dying, Fit

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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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  Men, Historical, Needs

  "My Life with Martin Luther King Jr." (Revised Edition) by Coretta Scott King, 1969/1993.

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