Quotes by Bernice King - Page 2

What I'm trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, 'We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we're going to perish as fools.'
Bernice King / Minister
Brothers And Sisters
Sisters
Fools
Fulfill
Perish
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Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King's daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn't bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.
Bernice King / Minister
Daughter
Bother
Luther
Ministry
King I Am Me
Anymore
King Me I Am
Just Be
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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter - we've seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn't see in Daddy's era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.
Bernice King / Minister
Awakening
Daddy
Privilege
Thank God
God Thank God People
Efforts
Grips
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Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.
Bernice King / Minister
Academia
Boston
Conservatory
New England
Prestigious
Scholarship
Vocalist
Skill
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In addition to a stronger focus on better training for law enforcement, America urgently needs programs to provide jobs and educational opportunities in economically depressed communities.
Bernice King / Minister
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Addition
Depressed
Economically
Educational Opportunities
Programs
Urgently
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One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
Bernice King / Minister
Founding
Blamed
Relates
Slaves
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Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.
Bernice King / Minister
Courage
Leadership
Better Man
Bitter
Dignity
Liberation
Made
Nelson
Our World
World
Life Courage Man
Man
Human
His
Place
Which
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Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.
Bernice King / Minister
Human Family
Advocate
Albeit
Small
Opponent
Realize
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Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
Bernice King / Minister
Climbed
Deter
Scott
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Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.
Bernice King / Minister
Friends
Daddy
Nonviolence
Philosophy
Taught
Create
Dignified
Enemies
Placed
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My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired 'A Time to Remember' to mobilize a movement for gun control.
Bernice King / Minister
Causes
Gun
Gun Control
Movement
Time Good Mother
Time Good Together
Good Friends
Husbands
Mobilize
Shared
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Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'
Bernice King / Minister
Time Together People
Alike
Conservatives
Forum
Liberals
Progressives
Racial
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Something big is going on. I'm talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
Bernice King / Minister
Injustice
Persist
Voting
Effective
Organizing
Refuses
Voices
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In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
Bernice King / Minister
Dedicated
Glorification
Gun
Gun Control
Protest
Reducing
Addition
Urgently
Video Games
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My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.
Bernice King / Minister
Introduction
South Africa
United Nations
Attend
Forum
Occasion
Stead
Unable
Volunteered
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You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That's part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.
Bernice King / Minister
Development
Dignity
Educate
Growth
Misguided
People
Persevere
Personal Growth
Self Respect
Life Time People
Life Time Always
Will
Life Time Growth
Always
Them
Challenge
Part
Encounter
From Time To Time
Personal
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Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
Bernice King / Minister
Environmental
Concern
Corporations
Ethnicity
Injustice
Standards
Tangible
Impacted
Intolerable
Minimal
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Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.
Bernice King / Minister
Noise
Transformation
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The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
Bernice King / Minister
Humane
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Transparency
Advertisement
Gain
Sector
Talks
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Unlike some people, my father would try to meet with President-elect Trump because he recognizes that in order to move the agenda of justice, freedom, and equality forward, you can't just protest and resist. You also have to negotiate as well.
Bernice King / Minister
Equality
Protest
Trump
Freedom Justice People
Agenda
Freedom Equality Justice
Unlike
Negotiate
Resist
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We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
Bernice King / Minister
Citizenry
Enforcement
Entertainment
Law Enforcement
Media
Nonviolence
Arts
Choice
Ensure
Global
Join
Rediscover
Sector
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Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
Bernice King / Minister
Bloodshed
Destruction
Distribution
Facilitate
Mass
Mass Destruction
Neglect
Tolerance
Weapons
Deadly
Governments
State Governments
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We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.
Bernice King / Minister
Bombarded
Corresponding
Determine
Dilemma
Human Progress
Inhumanity
Demonstrate
Ills
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We can put millions of America's idle young people to work helping to repair and restore America's deteriorating infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation systems. Nothing would revitalize the nation's sagging economy more than such a commitment.
Bernice King / Minister
Deteriorating
Idle
Infrastructure
Transportation
Work People Nothing
Repair
Restore
Systems
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
Bernice King / Minister
Apartheid
Arrested
Embassy
Johannesburg
African
Claimed
Mandela
South African
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I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.
Bernice King / Minister
Careful
Compassion
Entertainment
Lifts
Spending
Violence
Love Nature Best
Invest
Consumer
Urging
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Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.
Bernice King / Minister
Antidote
Consuming
Divided
Effects
Militarism
Nonviolence
Racism
Believe I Believe Community
Hopes
Triple
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How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?
Bernice King / Minister
Human Progress
Navigate
Painful
Perpetuating
Unknown
Biases
Conflicting
Contribute
Images
Impediment
Sacrificial
Suffer
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I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.
Bernice King / Minister
Boyfriend
Adamant
Denied
Mentoring
Setting
Life Family Relationship
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Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our law enforcement and labor practices, which currently include people in numerous nations working for inhumane wages in unhealthy conditions.
Bernice King / Minister
Positive
Conditions
Enforcement
Inhumane
Labor
Law Enforcement
Nations
Nonviolence
Progress
Unhealthy
Wages
Currently
Central
Consider
Encompassing
Working
Global
Include
Numerous
Possibilities
Practices
Value
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If each of us works toward making a sincere effort when we wake up each morning with a renewed commitment and dedication to embracing nonviolence as a lifestyle, this world will become a better place, bringing us ever closer to the Beloved Community of which my father so often spoke.
Bernice King / Minister
Morning
Beloved
Better Place
Commitment
Community
Dedication
Effort
Lifestyle
Nonviolence
Sincere
Wake Up
Works
Bringing
Closer
Often
Each Morning
Embracing
Making
Renewed
Spoke
Toward
Wake
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Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.
Bernice King / Minister
Lifestyle
Moving
Nonviolence
Offense
Opposing
Perpetual
Strategy
Team
Thinking
Versus
Decisions
Allow
Ball
Constantly
Field
Forces
Instead
Move
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With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.
Bernice King / Minister
Commitment
New Era
Prayer
Protected
Resolve
Secure
Every American
Homes
Reforms
Let Us
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In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.
Bernice King / Minister
Chosen
Desire
Exit
Loved Ones
Nelson
Powerful
Prison
Reconciliation
South Africa
Love God Family
Accident
Africa
Few People
Lead
Imprisoned
Mandela
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It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to support this effort with selective patronage campaigns to encourage media that provides uplifting content and to boycott the worst offenders, if necessary.
Bernice King / Minister
Uplifting
Boycott
Campaigns
Glorification
Offenders
Patronage
Selective
Discourage
Incumbent
Provides
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Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
Bernice King / Minister
Society
Betterment
Brothers And Sisters
Building
Common
Discrimination
Nations
Prejudice
Together
Good Together Your
All Races
Alliance
Brothers
Sisters
Forms
Cultures
Religions
Join
Seek
Put
Other
Quest
Races
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I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.
Bernice King / Minister
Equality
Legal
Arena
Gay
Gay Marriage
Political
All People
Beliefs
Dealt
Held
Issue
Placed
Privately
Properly
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
Bernice King / Minister
Conflict
Engagement
Police
Preventing
Psychology
Resolution
Training
Violence
Rules
Across
Behavioral
Crimes
Departments
Develop
In-Depth
Nonviolent
Require
Suspected
Techniques
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As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there are diverse voices in our country, and people have the right of free speech. They have the right of choice, but again, it is our hope that when they choose, they choose to reflect those ideals that he taught us.
Bernice King / Minister
Betterment
Diverse
Free Speech
Ideals
Reflect
Voices
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With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.
Bernice King / Minister
Business Leaders
Changed
Civil Rights
Convince
Husband
Legacy
Legislation
Surrender
Male
Assignment
Base
Center
Civil
Fulfill
Pressed
Refused
Reigns
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