You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That's part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development. Bernice King More Quotes by Bernice King More Quotes From Bernice King Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects. Bernice King community racism believe father If people want to criticize me, that's their issue. Bernice King me criticize want people King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change. Bernice King change work way thinking We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations. Bernice King presence cyber injustice violence All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations. Bernice King beyond us own life 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 go together time people We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress. Bernice King stand difficult progress play It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness. Bernice King compass humanity spiritual time My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired 'A Time to Remember' to mobilize a movement for gun control. Bernice King good mother together time With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities. Bernice King new child prayer work
