American - Activist | April 27, 1927 - January 30, 2006
My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.
Coretta Scott King
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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.
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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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.
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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.
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I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
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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.
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I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.
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A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.
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I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.
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We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them.
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Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.
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