Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that sensational stories attract more attention than honest and faithful narratives.
Coretta Scott King's quote highlights the tendency of society to gravitate towards scandalous and dramatic tales, which often result in higher sales and public interest, while stories rooted in fidelity and integrity may go unnoticed. This observation reflects a broader commentary on human nature's preference for the sensational over the truthful.
In practice
In a discussion about the publishing industry, one might say, 'As Coretta Scott King noted, scandal sells books; fidelity does not, highlighting what attracts readers.'
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.
Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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