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.”
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Coretta Scott King
Civil rights leader; founder of the King Center
United States · 1927–2006
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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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