Coretta Scott King

“Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.”

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

“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.”

“I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.”

“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.”

“Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.”

“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.”