Coretta Scott King

“I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.”

“Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.”

“Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.”

“Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.”

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

“Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.”

“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 wh...”

“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.”

“I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.”

“Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.”

“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 peo...”

“I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.”

“The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.”

“A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.”