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Coretta Scott King
American
Activist
About the author
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.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#People
#Trying
#Marriage
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.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#People
#Dignity
#Humanity
#Racism
#Bigotry
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Soul
#Nation
#Women
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.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Right
#Nothing
#Man
#Spirit
#History
#Beginning
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Freedom
#Ending
#Struggle
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#People
#Wrong
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.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Children
#End
#American
#Women
#Voting
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Freedom
#Responsibility
#Americans
#Rights
#Human rights
#Prejudice
#Bigotry
#Tolerance
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Burden
#Hate
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.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#People
#Freedom
#Justice
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
Coretta Scott King,
American
Activist
#Life
#Thought
#Sense
#Money
#Spiritual
#Clothes
#Happiness