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" Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. "
Coretta Scott King
Black
White
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" The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. "
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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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" Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. "
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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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" I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected. "
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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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" My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. "
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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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" I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle. "
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Future
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation. "
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" Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence. "
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Revenge
Violence
" Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night. "
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Attitude
Night
Non-Violence
" 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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" Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now. "
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" I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. "
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Strength
Proud
Mother
" I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it. "
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Know
Feel
Believe
" 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. "
Coretta Scott King
Justice
People
Compassion
" 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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Majority
Made
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" 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. "
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Prison
Suffering
Freedom
" Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion. "
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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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Whose
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" Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Group
Humanity
" Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will. "
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" I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done. "
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