Luther Quotes - Page 2

• Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

  Steve Stoute

  Kings, Believe, Race

  Source: deadline.com

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• Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Kings, Writing, School

  "Building a Community of Love". Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh, plumvillage.org. January 1, 2000.

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• I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

  Columbus Short

  Kings, Real, Struggle

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!

  Ava DuVernay

  Kings, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Prayer, Years

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme.

  Jay Leno

  Dream, Kings, Differences

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• But it's me taking a stand for something that means something. And it's for the fighters who are up and coming. It's sort of the same stance Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made, so we could have freedoms, so everybody could tell the world that we're equal. The only thing I'm saying is that we are equal. So if you're not on nothing and I'm not on nothing, then let's go take the test. That's all I'm saying.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Kings, Mean, World

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• On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Views, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

  Warryn Campbell

  Sound, Different, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Country, Kings, Lying

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

  Marianne Williamson

  Kings, Wall, Struggle

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't let others define them: Martin Luther King Jr., James Dean, Vincent Van Gogh, Hillary Clinton, Tennessee Williams, director Steve McQueen. They've all changed the conversation by making their voices heard.

  Robert Piper

  Kings, Voice, Inspire

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• I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

  Henry Rollins

  Teacher, Kings, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Passion, Pride

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• I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohammed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
  This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Mother, Jesus, Kings

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, War, Thinking

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• Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Kings, Dark

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• Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

  Steven J Lawson

  Psalms, Thunder, Theology

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• I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

  Marlon Brando

  Kings, Thinking, Dust

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• Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

  Ice Cube

  Song, Rapper, Want

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• Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi.

  Vinnie Paz

  Kings, Israel, Iraq

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• I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

  Coretta Scott King

  Jesus, Kings, Philosophy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Kings, Saint, Shows

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• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• [Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

  Bill Moyers

  Kings, Nations, Conscience

  "Moyers on Democracy" by Bill Moyers, (p. 111), 2008.

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