The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

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

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

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

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

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