Luther Quotes - Page 12

• What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

  Jim Hightower

  Mother, Kings, People

  "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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• [James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.

  Raoul Peck

  Kings, Tv Shows, Community

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• What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You had blacks and whites coming together and sacrificing, organizing and mobilizing the world. That's the first time we've had collective action put at the center of any kind of portrayal of Martin King on the screen.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Sacrifice, Humanity

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Bricks And Mortar, Legacy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Surveillance, Victim

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm more of an oldies guy. I'll say this - Michael Jackson, best entertainer of all time. Luther Vandross, best male singer of all time. Whitney Houston, best female singer of all time...and when Teddy Pendergrass says turn off the lights, turn 'em off. That's what I got for you.

  Russell Wilson

  Light, Guy, Males

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, not to mention those of Malcolm X? It is the conditions that produce violence that should upset us ethically and prompt us to act responsibly, rather than to capitulate to a privatized emotional response that substitutes a therapeutic language for a political and worldly one.

  Henry Giroux

  Emotional, Political, Upset

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

  David Cameron

  Leadership, Kings, Real

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• One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, Careers, Hype

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• I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which is precisely what King didn't want his cause to be associated with. But that was the very thing that made it sexy to the art world. So I played between the two associations.

  Kelley Walker

  Sexy, Art, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Two, Crowns, Guilty

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• By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Men, Mind

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• Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Kings, Office

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• Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

  Barney Frank

  Kings, America, Worship

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• I was watching lectures by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Dr. Sebi and Umar Johnson. It's super mind opening when you listen to those words and think about how much they still resonate today. Think about how true those words are, and how much they predicted the future. That was what was really mind-boggling to me.

  Joey Badass

  Thinking, Mind, Today

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different one, but actual artists often say things like "the book chose me" - that is, the work had to be. Some philosophers would call it "volitional necessity", and a similar case that's discussed is the case of Luther saying "here I stand, I can do no other".

  Nomy Arpaly

  Art, Book, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Integrity, Sacrifice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Wall, Government

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

  Rodney King

  Country, Kings, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

  Christine Quinn

  Dog, Kings, School

  "Leave a Place Setting for Ann". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, America, Made

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• The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Sleep, Years

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Uncles, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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