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
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  3. Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. - Iain Pears

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More Quotes By Coretta Scott King
  1. Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

  2. 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 in history or nothing happens.

  3. There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

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

  5. Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

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