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" 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 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

Marry

Know

" 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? "

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

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

" Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. "

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

" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

Scared

I Am

" 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. "

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

Coretta Scott King

Hate

Great

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Scandal sells books; fidelity does not. "

" The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages. "