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Coretta Scott King

Civil rights leader; founder of the King Center

United States · 1927–2006

Coretta Scott King was an American author, singer and civil rights leader. After the assassination of her husband Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 she founded the King Center in Atlanta and campaigned for four decades on civil rights, economic justice and nonviolence.

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Question What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself?
But I was blessed with parents who taught me not to let anyone make me feel like I wasn’t good enough, and as my mother told me, “You are just as good as anyone else. You get an education and try to be somebody. Then you won’t have to be kicked around by anybody, and you won’t have to depend on anyone for your livelihood, not even a man.”

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 12 June 2004 source ↗

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