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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 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

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

" 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. "

" Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done. "

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

" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

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" On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. "

" 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. "

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