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" A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. "

Coretta Scott King

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" Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion. "

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" Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. "

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" While not a panacea for the nation's illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one necessary means of stopping the exploitation of vulnerable workers and the undercutting of American jobs and living standards. "

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" Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now. "

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

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" I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected. "

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" A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages. "

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" Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence. "

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" Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations. "

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" I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is. "

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" Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me. "

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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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" You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends. "

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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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" I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. "

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" Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else. "

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" There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy. "

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" Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life. "

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" Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others. "

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" The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society. "

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" Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength. "

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" Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world. "

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" I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party. "

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" Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul. "

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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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" Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. "

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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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" 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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