Luther Quotes - Page 4

• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Rome, Feet

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• I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

  Richard Schiff

  Kings, America, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Memorable, Winning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

  Bayard Rustin

  Kings, Numbers, Homosexuality

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kings, Character, Color

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• There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

  Chris Crutcher

  Jesus, Kings, Perspective

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• In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Kings, Home, Voice

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

  John O'Hara

  Lying, Book, Sleep

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.15, Penguin

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• I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kings, Kids, Drs

  "Shakespeare, to expand their globe" by Merrill Balassone, articles.latimes.com. September 6, 2005.

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• O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reform, Doe, Matter

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• I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

  Peter Ustinov

  Dream, Facts, Pope

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• "The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Ghost, Holy

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• When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Doubt, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.

  Ava DuVernay

  Dream, Kings, Holiday

  Source: collider.com

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• They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, "Kill all white babies."

  Glenn Beck

  Baby, Kings, War

  "Beck: 'They want a race war ... and our government is going to stand by and let them do it'". www.mediamatters.org. July 12, 2010.

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• Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

  Yvette Clarke

  Kings, Jail, Spokes

  "Fighting to Fulfill 'The Dream'” by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.

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• The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Greatness, Action, Moral

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.86

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• The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.

  Charlie Pierce

  Kings, Men, Years

  "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierse, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

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• Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Taken, Given

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• The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Dream, Jesus

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Understanding, Dots

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Mean, Wealth

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

  Cornel West

  Kings, People, Communist

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Speaks Out, Racism

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Extremist

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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