“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”

— Coretta Scott King

As quoted in Daughters of the Promised Land, Women in American History (1970) by Page Smith, p. 273

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“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”

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