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" My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. "
Coretta Scott King
Professional
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" I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. "
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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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" On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "
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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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" If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism. "
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" 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. "
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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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