Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the immorality of segregation regardless of who advocates for it.
Coretta Scott King asserts that segregation is inherently wrong, whether imposed by white people or sought after by black people. This highlights the belief that any form of separation based on race undermines equality and humanity, urging a unified stance against segregation in all its forms.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about civil rights movements.
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
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.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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