A biography for Coretta Scott Kinghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.”
“Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.”
“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.”
“My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting.”
“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.”
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
“Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.”
“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.”
“There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.”
“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.”
“Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.”
“If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.”
“Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.”
“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.”
“Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.”
“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.”