I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. – Rodney King
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive. – Rodney King
Im a religious person. I remember my mom told me: Vengeance belongs to God. Its up to him to wreak vengeance. Its hard for me to get to that point, but thats the work of God. – Rodney King
When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart. – Rodney King
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester