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Coretta Scott King
American
Activist
Born:
Apr 27
,
1927
Died:
Jan 30
,
2006
Believe
Freedom
People
Rights
Women
You
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Angela Davis
Cesar Chavez
Gloria Steinem
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Malcolm X
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King
Community
Members
Most
Greatness
Accurately
Measured
Actions
Compassionate
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King
Great
Hate
Burden
Too
Hated
Hater
More
Bear
Than
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
Coretta Scott King
Freedom
Struggle
Song
Fear
Overcome
Finding
About
Purpose
Self
How
Causes
Up
Than
Bigger
Story
Stand
Stand Up
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
Faith
Great
Woman
Women
Racism
Will
Poverty
Power
Nation
Community
Society
Our
Great Faith
Shattered
Heals
Makes
Task
Which
Themselves
Us
Dedicate
Who
Whole
Rotten
Now
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott King
You
Soul
Women
Become
Nation
Believe
Saved
Must
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
Freedom
You
Struggle
Generation
Win
Ending
Every
Earn
Never
Never-Ending
Won
Process
Really
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Coretta Scott King
Anger
Revenge
Fear
Retaliation
Always
Perpetuate
Cycle
Violence
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
Women
Voting
Think
Increase
Programs
Benefiting
Would
See
Percent
Ten
Budget
Budget Cuts
Women And Children
End
American
Children
Cuts
Turnout
American Women
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
Coretta Scott King
Dignity
Racism
Humanity
People
Anti-Semitism
Group
Other
Seeks
Like
Deny
Forms
Personhood
Large
Large Group
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
Coretta Scott King
Failure
Youth
Compassion
Sense
Invest
Colossal
Reflects
Lack
Common
Common Sense
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
Freedom
You
Justice
People
Political
Group
Believe
Others
Out
Pieces
Deny
Convenience
Cannot
Stand
Suit
On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.
Coretta Scott King
Thanksgiving
Old
White
Our
House
Years
Burned
Fifteen
Racists
Ground
Night
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
Future
Time
Injustice
Change
Struggle
People
Poverty
Believe
Systemic
Some
Another
Got
Go
Conditions
Going
Movement
Where
Help
Lives
Violence
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.
Coretta Scott King
Future
Democracy
Rights
Voting
Important
States
Vitally
Voting Rights
Still
Act
United
United States
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.
Coretta Scott King
Family
Me
Heart
Fear
Feelings
Our
Rushed
Through
Allow
Learned
How
Came
Hear
Refused
Sway
Racing
Resilience
Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.
Coretta Scott King
Life
Justice
Never
Advanced
Taking
Human
Human Life
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
Technology
Science
Will
Poverty
Science And Technology
Our
Resources
Deficit
Something
Feed
Wrong
Human
Should
Many
Human Resources
Why
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.
Coretta Scott King
People
Care
Our
About
Except
Through
Prices
Consumer
Excessive
Cheap
Labor
dont Care
Plain
Them
Poor
Exploit
Poor People
I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.
Coretta Scott King
Women
Believe
Husbands
Feel
Know
Unfaithful
Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.
Coretta Scott King
Best
You
People
Try
Just Be
Satisfied
Self
Know
Knowing
Am
Maybe
Just
Eventually
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
History
Man
Beginning
Nothing
Every
Must
Spirit
Advance
Particular
Human
Happens
Moment
Right
Need
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
You
Rights
People
Matter
Human Rights
All People
Sexual
See
How
Human
Separate
Orientation
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
Coretta Scott King
War
You
Peace
Destruction
Weapons
About
More
Going
Use
Bring
Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.
Coretta Scott King
Gay
Legal
Marriage
People
Protection
Lesbian
Civil
Families
Whether
Should
Union
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
Coretta Scott King
World
Response
Seeing
Only
Around
Nonviolence
Credible
Violence
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
Gay
Marriage
Nothing
Marriages
Would
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Protect
Traditional
Amendment
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Form
Banning
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