Coretta Scott King

If American women 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.

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

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.

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

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.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members.

Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found readymade; it must be created by the fact of contact.

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 in history or nothing happens.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

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

If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way.

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

I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.