Luther Quotes - Page 7

• I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.

  Coretta Scott King

  Kings, Praying, Mets

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life.

  Cornel West

  Growing Up, Blue, Black

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• You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own "selfish" desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer.

  Mike Dooley

  Mother, Dream, Kings

  Mike Dooley (2009). “Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things!”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

  John Assaraf

  Jesus, Kings, Hero

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Kings, People, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kings, Memories, Sunday

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Kings, Differences, People

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• "March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?".

  Andrew Aydin

  Kings, Book, Writing

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."

  Andrew Aydin

  Kings, Book, Writing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the fulfillment of Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream, but it was a major down payment.

  Andrew Aydin

  Dream, Kings, Rights

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our country. This is why the Danes, unlike the people of many countries in Eastern and Central Europe, became Lutherans and not Calvinists.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Strong, Denmark, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence.

  Michel Martin

  Kings, Home, Might

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.

  Van Jones

  Kings, Inspiration, School

  Source: aalbc.com

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• As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kings, Evil, Unjust

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Mean, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - –when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Book, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school, and we feel very close to him.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  School, Fundamentals, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, People, Essentials

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  Garry Winogrand

  Kings, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• [Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

  Ella Baker

  Kings, Two, Community

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.

  Ella Baker

  Kings, Leader, Done

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Martin [Luther King] wasn't one to buck forces too much.

  Ella Baker

  Kings, Bucks, Too Much

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

  Ella Baker

  Kings, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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