Coretta Scott King Quotes

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Coretta Scott King

Profession : Activist

Birth : April 27, 1927

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

Coretta Scott King

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?

Coretta Scott King

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

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

Coretta Scott King

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.

Coretta Scott King

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

Coretta Scott King

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

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

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

Coretta Scott King

In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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.

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

Coretta Scott King

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

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

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

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

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

Coretta Scott King