When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there’s no hope. But then, Easter comes. — Coretta Scott King

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples’ lives. — Coretta Scott King

This 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 King

I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes–the finer things of life–would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. — Coretta Scott King

Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. — Coretta Scott King

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. — Coretta Scott King

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. — Coretta Scott King

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble. — Coretta Scott King

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform. — Coretta Scott King

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child. — Coretta Scott King

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

My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting. — Coretta Scott King

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul. — Coretta Scott King

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone. — Coretta Scott King

Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing. — Coretta Scott King

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind. — Coretta Scott King

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood. — Coretta Scott King

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

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. — Coretta Scott King

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. — Coretta Scott King

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? — Coretta Scott King

Violence diminishes our humanity. — Coretta Scott King

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry. — Coretta Scott King

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live. — Coretta Scott King

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination. — Coretta Scott King

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence. — Coretta Scott King

Non–violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night. — Coretta Scott King