Coretta Scott King Quotes
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As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.
Coretta Scott King
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
Coretta Scott King
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
Coretta Scott King
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
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.
Coretta Scott King
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King
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.
Coretta Scott King
On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.
Coretta Scott King