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" I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it. "

Coretta Scott King

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" My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self. "

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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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" I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle. "

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" You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation. "

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" To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination. "

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" Scandal sells books; fidelity does not. "

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" Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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? "

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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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" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "

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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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" 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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" 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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