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Coretta Scott King: 1927-2006
In her words
Associated Press
Published February 1, 2006
"I think you rise to the occasion in a crisis. ... I think the Lord gives you strength when you need it. God was using us - and now he's using me, too."
"I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality."
- 1968, after her husband's slaying
"Many despair at all the evil and unrest and disorder in the world today, but I see a new social order and I see the dawn of a new day."
- 1969, in London at St. Paul's Cathedral, where her husband had preached five years earlier
"Even if no new light is shed on the facts concerning my husband's assassination, at least we and the nation can have the satisfaction of knowing that justice has run its course in this tragedy."
- 1997, asking a judge to grant a trial for James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to killing her husband and then recanted
"The value of life in our cities has become as cheap as the price of a gun."
- 1993, on the 25th anniversary of her husband's death, speaking of drugs and gang wars in inner cities
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