Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent ‘rules of engagement,’ so that they don’t reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence. Bernice King Read Quote
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness. Bernice King Read Quote
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry. Bernice King Read Quote
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects. Bernice King Read Quote
Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence. Bernice King Read Quote
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted. Bernice King Read Quote
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement. Bernice King Read Quote
In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela’s side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa’s first free elections. Bernice King Read Quote
Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama. Bernice King Read Quote
After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy. Bernice King Read Quote
