Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Alveda King - Page 2

The Bible has multiple accounts of people who were born with various conditions and in various states of existence, only to meet Jesus and be healed or delivered from whatever was their concern. Truly, there isn't a human ever born into this life without having to contend with one issue or another along life's journey.

You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.

Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.

If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

The media has a responsibility. And we can't let them totally get away because they have to let the truth be seen and be told.

We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

Coming forth, you've got to love each other and you have to have faith. And you never lose hope. Even when things are really, really, really bad - there's always hope.

A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health. Because how are you going to do all that marching if you are not in good health?

There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.