I never got to the point where I felt that nonviolence was not viable. ... I realized that it wasn’t that it wouldn’t work, it’s that people didn’t follow the proper steps in trying to achieve it because there are a set of principles and there are a set of steps in the methodology that we were taught about nonviolence. And when we follow those they work.
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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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