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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. "
Coretta Scott King
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" 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. "
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" Scandal sells books; fidelity does not. "
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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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" Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world. "
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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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" 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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" The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. "
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" If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction. "
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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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" 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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" To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination. "
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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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" I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. "
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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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" 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. "
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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'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. "
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" 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. "
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