You cannot have peaceful means – peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you’re going to bring about destructive ends. Coretta Scott King Read Quote
Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me. Coretta Scott King Read Quote
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin – 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 Read Quote
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. Coretta Scott King Read Quote
I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time? Coretta Scott King Read Quote
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. Coretta Scott King Read Quote
Mr. Sessions’ conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge. Coretta Scott King Read Quote
We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they’ve been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion. Coretta Scott King Read Quote
