Quotes by Coretta Scott King

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

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 of history, or nothing happens.

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.

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.

On the parents of her husband Martin Luther King Jr, recalled when her mother-in-law was slain: 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.

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.