The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
Coretta Scott KingThis was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.
Coretta Scott KingWomen, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott KingHate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott KingWe have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
Coretta Scott King