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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Strength
Proud
Mother
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" When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline. "
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" Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. "
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" It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices. "
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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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" 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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" Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others. "
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" My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. "
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" You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation. "
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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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" Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge. "
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" In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority. "
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" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "
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" Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will. "
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Poverty
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" The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States. "
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" What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved. "
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Only
Understand
Loved
" 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
People
King
Best
" I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time? "
Coretta Scott King
Woman
You
Time
" 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
Dignity
Group
Humanity
" Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night. "
Coretta Scott King
Attitude
Night
Non-Violence
" 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. "
Coretta Scott King
Black
Vote
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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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God
Life
Live
" A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. "
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George
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" On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground. "
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House
White
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" We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them. "
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" My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting. "
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" To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination. "
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Discrimination
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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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Think
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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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Parents
Me
Knowing
" I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him. "
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Marry
Know
Me
" Scandal sells books; fidelity does not. "
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