Coretta Scott King was an American human rights activist and civil rights leader who became notable after being the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
Coretta Scott King, who was born in 1927, had an illustrious career in her own right. She founded the Women’s Political Caucus and led the fight to end segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. She also established a training center for women seeking political office.
King came to national prominence when her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. She helped organize his growing non-violent movement against racial discrimination and poverty following his release from a Georgia state prison in 1960.
She has been an activist for many years and is dedicated to social justice and civil rights. Perhaps one of her most famous quotes is, “the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Here are 29 Inspirational Coretta Scott King Quotes that can help you in your journey of life
1. “It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.” ~ Coretta Scott King
2. “Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don’t know it, maybe they’ll eventually know it.” ~ Coretta Scott King
3. “When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.” ~ Coretta Scott King
4. “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
5. “If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.” ~ Coretta Scott King
6. “I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.” ~ Coretta Scott King
7. “Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother’s discernment and my father’s strength.” ~ Coretta Scott King
8. “Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.” ~ Coretta Scott King
9. “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta Scott King
10. “Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources – it is a deficit in human will.” ~ Coretta Scott King
11. “To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.” ~ Coretta Scott King
12. “When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.” ~ Coretta Scott King
13. “Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.” ~ Coretta Scott King
14. “No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.” ~ Coretta Scott King
15. “There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.” ~ Coretta Scott King
16. “We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community,”
17. “My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting.” ~ Coretta Scott King
18. “Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.” ~ Coretta Scott King
19. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” ~ Coretta Scott King
20. “It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.” ~ Coretta Scott King
21. “Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.” ~ Coretta Scott King
22. “I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn’t know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin – and it took a lot of praying to discover this – that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him.” ~ Coretta Scott King
23. “You cannot have peaceful means – peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you’re going to bring about destructive ends.” ~ Coretta Scott King
24. “The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.” ~ Coretta Scott King
25. “Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” ~ Coretta Scott King
26. “Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.” ~ Coretta Scott King
27. “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
28. “What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved.” ~ Coretta Scott King
29. “When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.” ~ Coretta Scott King
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