Celebrating Coretta Scott King on Her 93rd Birthday
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Krystal Franklin
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April 27, 2020
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1. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.”
2. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
3. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
4. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.”
5. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“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.”
6. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.”
7. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“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.”
8. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“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.”
9. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.”
10. Celebrating Coretta Scott King On Her 93rd Birthday
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
