Quotes from Alveda King

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman to have an abortion? I think the womb that brings forth the black life should matter... Because black lives absolutely matter, what about the babies in that womb? What about that mama?

I prayed often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to abort my baby. I suffered the threat of cervical and breast cancer and experienced the pain of empty arms after the baby was gone. And truly, for me, and countless abortive mothers, nothing on earth can fully restore what has been lost; only Jesus can.

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.

The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.

Coming forth, you've got to love each other and you have to have faith. And you never lose hope. Even when things are really, really, really bad - there's always hope.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.