An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

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.

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

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.

Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.