Luther Quotes - Page 17

• The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.

  Chris Hedges

  Kings, Jobs, Powerful

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Music, Kings, Alive

  "Madonna’s Only Wrongdoing Is That She Is Still Alive" by Kosta Petrov, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2016.

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• One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kings, Rights

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• A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Race, People

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• I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Change, Kings, People

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• I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King understood is that you have to deal with the economic issues as well as the political issues and the civil rights issues.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kings, Believe

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at the end of the day.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, Voice, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.ncregister.com

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• Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.

  Kevin Drew

  Order, Law, Anxiety

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.

  Cornel West

  Baby, Brother, Kings

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• I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

  Cornel West

  Kings, President, Barack

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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• It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.

  David Maraniss

  Dream, Kings, June

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

  Coretta Scott King

  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

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• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Struggle, Hero

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Sleep, Break Through

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• Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.

  David Maraniss

  Dream, Country, Kings

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

  Akeem Ayers

  Teacher, Kings, Great Person

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• I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

  Vince Staples

  Kings, Louisiana, Fishes

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

  Mavis Staples

  Kings, Drs, Dr Martin Luther King

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You know, it's hard to say this, but I suspect that Obama is afraid either of blackmail potential or even worse. And he has referred to the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this main saying, "don't you remember what happened to Dr. King?"

  Ray McGovern

  Kings, Drs, Remember

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thanksgiving, Kings, Valentine

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dream, Kings

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

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• I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Black, United States

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