Coretta Scott King Quotes

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Coretta Scott King

Profession : Activist

Birth : April 27, 1927

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 is never advanced in the taking of a human life.

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

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

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

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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.

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

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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

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

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I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.

Coretta Scott King

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

Coretta Scott King

Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.

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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.

Coretta Scott King