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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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. "

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

" Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others. "

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

" Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations. "

" Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now. "

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

" Scandal sells books; fidelity does not. "

" 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. "

" During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine. "

" 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. "

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

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" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "

" 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? "