Coretta Scott King Quotes

Agitate, Agitate, Agitate. But only for a good cause and in a proper manner.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.

I'll say this for reformers—they're mighty patient.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

He [Jacob Riis] had the most flaming intensity of passion for righteousness.

You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.

I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it.

The fact is, human rights victories are rarely won by powerful governments or well-armed militaries. More often than not, these battles are led by individuals and small groups of people determined to overcome wrong. Think King, Gandhi, Mandela.

We've got to keep fighting. Got to keep agitating. Got to keep making sure that we put pressure on the people who make the laws, and the decisions, in this country.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

Power cedes nothing without a demand.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.