Coretta Scott King Quotes

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

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and ...

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it i...

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community,...

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every gen...

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe ...

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of...

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discern...

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of t...

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of t...

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand fi...

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to...

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science...

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by ma...

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the gro...

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

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway ...