Quotes from Bernice King
King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.
- Bernice King
Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
- Bernice King
If people want to criticize me, that's their issue.
- Bernice King
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
- Bernice King
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
- Bernice King
My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.
- Bernice King
I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
- Bernice King
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
- Bernice King
Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'
- Bernice King
Don't be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
- Bernice King
My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
- Bernice King
How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
- Bernice King