Selected Coretta Scott King Quotations
• Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every generation.
• Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
• If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
• The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.
• Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
• 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.
• My husband was a man who hoped to be a Baptist preacher to a large, Southern, urban congregation. Instead, by the time he died in 1968, he had led millions of people into shattering forever the Southern system of segregation of the races.
• In spite of Martin's being away so much, he was wonderful with his children, and they adored him. When Daddy was home it was something special.
• Martin was an unusual person.... He was so alive and so much fun to be with. He had strength that he imparted to me and others that he met.
• About the Martin Luther King, jr., holiday: Today is not merely a holiday, but a true holy day which honors the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Junior, in the best possible way.
• The more visible signs of protest are goine, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late-60s are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the 70s.
• Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
• 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.
• I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
• About the Confederate flag: You are right that it is a hurtful, divisive symbol and I commend you for having the courage to tell it like it is at a time when too many other political leaders are equivocating on this issue.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2006. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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