Yolanda King Short Quotes

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Well, I wish they had built a Funtown for colored.

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These times call not for merriment only, but for movement.

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I am a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in the dream.

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To this day, my heart skips a beat every time I hear one of those special bulletins.

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Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening.

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For some of you, the civil rights movement might seem like ancient history, but it was live, in living color.

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Jim Crow is dead. But his sophisticated, college-educated, urbane first cousin J. Crow, Esquire, is alive and kicking.

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I cannot separate problems happening in South Africa with problems here. I don't think you can put too much emphasis on something as brutal and overt as South Africa.

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My father was this whip who carried a bible everywhere he went, including to someone's house to dinner. That's not the kind of minister Daddy was! All these ridiculous cliches.

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I think basically the youth of today are just having so many problems and they are sort of confused... This is their method, of escaping... Just like I sleep to escape my problems.

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We can throw up our hands in despair, we can write off the millions that are homeless, or we can choose to believe in a different way and we can do our share to bring that world into being.

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My father had a magnificent dream, but it still is only a dream. It is easier to build monuments than make a better world. If we choose to honor him in words alone, it will be a grotesque farce.

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