Bernice King

Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter - we've seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn't see in Daddy's era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege. ”

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. ”

I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don't think most people know about me. ”

I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It's still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, 'Be slow to anger.' ”

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations. ”

It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness. ”

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.' ”

As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace. ”

My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office. ”

It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to support this effort with selective patronage campaigns to encourage media that provides uplifting content and to boycott the worst offenders, if necessary. ”