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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
American Activist
Born: Apr 27, 1927
Died: Jan 30, 2006
Believe Freedom People Rights Women You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion. Coretta Scott King
War Best Injustice Women Gays Moral Disadvantaged Exert Up Discrimination Did Wherever Against Persuasion Show
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
Time You Woman Every Dilemma Perform Suppose Expected Personal Tasks Same Same Time Experienced Happens Conflicting Working Dozen
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. Coretta Scott King
Rights Human Being Sometimes Thought Leader Own Rich Human Rights Else Everyone Everyone Else Way Complex Would Civil Civil Rights Three-Dimensional My Own Like Identified Also Am Human Being Experiences Much Unique Activist
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
Rights Judge Voting Judgment Criminal Fraud Temperament Civil Civil Rights Indifference Laws Federal Federal Judge He Toward Attorney Fairness His Conduct Lacks Violations
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
You Will Destructive About Going Ends Cannot Means Use Used Peaceful Bring
Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now. Coretta Scott King
Work Today Would Nonviolence Years Now
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. Coretta Scott King
Best Parenting Marriage People King Become Kind Womanhood Mama Trying Represent Manhood Daddy
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. Coretta Scott King
Vote Rights Judge Achieve Chill Black Free Husband Long Power Awesome Citizens District Civil Civil Rights Seeks Federal Federal Judge He Leaders Box Exercise Access Ballot Ballot Box His Office Unfettered Turner Used Hard Including Fought Now Serve Albert
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
Made Constitute Blacks Voters Particularly Majority Access Continue South Deny Efforts Where Polls Even
While not a panacea for the nation's illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one necessary means of stopping the exploitation of vulnerable workers and the undercutting of American jobs and living standards. Coretta Scott King
Immigration Problems Nation Exploitation Living Jobs Employer Vulnerable American Stopping While American Jobs Sanctions Workers Means Standards Illegal Illegal Immigration Necessary Panacea
A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. Coretta Scott King
Vote Oppression Past George Wallace
Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me. Coretta Scott King
God Me Parents Would Exactly Could Selected Know Knowing If I Could Chosen Now
Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others. Coretta Scott King
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My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. Coretta Scott King
Lasting Personal Roots Deep Professional Alabama
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