Coretta Scott King – 9 Quotes

9 Quotes by 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

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

– 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

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

– Coretta Scott King

I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

– Coretta Scott King

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.

– 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

If American women would 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.

– Coretta Scott King

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

– Coretta Scott King