Latest Coretta Scott King Quotes from Interviews

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• Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

  Coretta Scott King

  Jail, Years, Suffering

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• People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

  Coretta Scott King

  Kings, People, Waiting

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• Because Dr. King was human and not divine - although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man - and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.

  Coretta Scott King

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.

  Coretta Scott King

  Kings, Praying, Luther

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• Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

  Coretta Scott King

  Men, Good Man, Good Woman

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• Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

  Coretta Scott King

  Kings, Way, Luther

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• The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

  Coretta Scott King

  Years, Things Change, Process

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• People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

  Coretta Scott King

  People, Role Models, Example

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• If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

  Coretta Scott King

  Kings, Philosophy, Iraq

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• I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

  Coretta Scott King

  Jesus, Kings, Philosophy

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• Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.

  Coretta Scott King

  Firsts, Individual, Embrace

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