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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.
Violence diminishes our humanity.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.
nonviolence first changes the individual.
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.
The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.
A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.
You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.
My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.
Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.
If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.
I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.
How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?
I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.
Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.
I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.
There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.
When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.
During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.
Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.
