• As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

    Coretta Scott King: As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.
    "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.