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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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" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

Fairness

Voting

Judge

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

Coretta Scott King

Parents

Knowing

" Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia. "

" My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. "

" Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

Violence

Motto

" 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. "

" We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion. "

" The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

Scared

I Am

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

Coretta Scott King

Hate

Great

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

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

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

" Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "