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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. "

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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. "

Coretta Scott King

Human Rights

People

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" Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. "

" I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. "

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

" Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion. "

" I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. "

" 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. "

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

" You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "

" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

Violence

Motto

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