Coretta Scott King quote: "I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party."

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the gro...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

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

The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United ...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable cr...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back
CORETTA SCOTT KING

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to ...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for ...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every gen...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway ...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand fi...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve f...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumaniz...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

While not a panacea for the nation's illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one ne...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community,...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did m...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,&...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer thing...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

You are right that it is a hurtful, divisive symbol and I commend you for having the courage to tell...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Today is not merely a holiday, but a true holy day which honors the life and legacy of Martin Luther...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutio...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't e...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer thin...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of t...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illitera...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see e...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out ...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and win it in every gene...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important, be...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have ma...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

You are right that it is a hurtful, divisive symbol and I commend you for having the courage to tell...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say 'comm...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe ...
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

When it's just us, I can be myself and know you'll love and understand me no matter what. You don't ...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Martin didn't want me to buy these window curtains.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.
CORETTA SCOTT KING

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be a...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also li...
CORETTA SCOTT KING

My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But cons...
DEXTER SCOTT KING

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.
DEXTER SCOTT KING

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litiga...
DEXTER SCOTT KING

How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin...
TED KING

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING

I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ...
TED KING

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ...
TABITHA KING

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
TABITHA KING

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe...
TABITHA KING

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
TABITHA KING

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo...
TABITHA KING

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING

I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#...
GAYLE KING

I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota...
KAKI KING

Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ...
KAKI KING

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr...
KAKI KING

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ...
KAKI KING

I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t...
KAKI KING

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
KAKI KING

I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and...
KAKI KING

The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning...
KAKI KING

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ...
KAKI KING

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th...
KAKI KING

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
KAKI KING

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
KAKI KING

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get of...
KAKI KING

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I&...
KAKI KING

Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I ch...
KAKI KING

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, ei...
KAKI KING

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence a...
KAKI KING

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
STEVE KING

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING

If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think '...
KERRY KING

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ...
LARRY KING

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now...
LARRY KING

People would pay money to work at CNN.
LARRY KING

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bon...
LARRY KING

I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions,...
LARRY KING

I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative ...
LARRY KING

If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
LARRY KING

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don...
LARRY KING

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the ...
LARRY KING

I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jeal...
LARRY KING

I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hon...
LARRY KING

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
LARRY KING

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through...
LARRY KING

I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dan...
LARRY KING

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you c...
LARRY KING

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern j...
LARRY KING

I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
LARRY KING

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
LARRY KING

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
LARRY KING

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting bu...
LARRY KING

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that ...
LARRY KING

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an eas...
LARRY KING

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
LARRY KING

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos...
RODNEY KING

I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.
ELLE KING

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
KING SOLOMON

I fantasized being a broadcaster.
LARRY KING

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
EARL KING

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kin...
EARL KING

I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to ...
GAYLE KING

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING

In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
KING VIDOR

secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING

Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING

My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme...
FLORENCE KING

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
FLORENCE KING

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning...
FLORENCE KING

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexand...
FLORENCE KING

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been ...
FLORENCE KING

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
FLORENCE KING

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
FLORENCE KING

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
FLORENCE KING

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up...
GEORGIA KING

Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard ...
GAYLE KING

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
LARRY KING

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re...
STEVE KING

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
KING HUSSEIN

Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a...
CLAIRE KING

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING

(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING

I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredien...
GAYLE KING

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: p...
FLORENCE KING

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.
FLORENCE KING

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.
B.B. KING

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti...
A.S. KING

Books are a uniquely portable magic.
STEPHEN KING

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.
STEPHEN KING

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING

The scariest moment is always just before you start.
STEPHEN KING

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo...
STEPHEN KING

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
STEPHEN KING

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING

As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING

I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
A.S. KING

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING

Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING

You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING

I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.

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I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.

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