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" To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination. "
Coretta Scott King
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
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" When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline. "
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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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" 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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" Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now. "
Coretta Scott King
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" The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. "
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Community
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Justice
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
War
Power
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Whose
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Evil
" I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. "
Coretta Scott King
King
People
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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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" 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. "
Coretta Scott King
American
Immigration
Problems
" I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is. "
Coretta Scott King
Human Rights
People
Matter
" 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. "
Coretta Scott King
Only
Understand
Loved
" Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. "
Coretta Scott King
Struggle
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" 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. "
Coretta Scott King
Majority
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Access
" There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy. "
Coretta Scott King
Rich
Why
Reason
" If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction. "
Coretta Scott King
Going
Peace
War
" Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world. "
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Response
World
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Scared
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Prison
Suffering
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Great
Man
History
" A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. "
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Vote
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" On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground. "
Coretta Scott King
House
White
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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. "
Coretta Scott King
Justice
Political
People
" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "
Coretta Scott King
Gay
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Marriage
" Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence. "
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Anger
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Violence
" 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. "
Coretta Scott King
Science
Poverty
Technology
" Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night. "
Coretta Scott King
Attitude
Night
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" 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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Injustice
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