Luther Quotes - Page 9

• Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the Prosecution.

  Julius Streicher

  Book, Taken, Holocaust

  "The Destruction of the European Jews: Third Edition". Book by Raul Hilberg, 2003.

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• It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.

  Benjamin Zander

  Dream, Kings, People

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• We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Jail, Memorial

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• Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.

  Carolyn Keene

  Beautiful, Missing, Bells

  Carolyn Keene (1960). “Nancy Drew 10: Password to Larkspur Lane”, p.102, Penguin

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• Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sitting, Movement, Toilets

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.57, Feral House

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• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now.

  R. Kelly

  Kings, People, Bob

  "Timeline of R. Kelly's Life" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2008.

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• I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Brother, Kings

  "Rights Leaders Denouncing New Book by Ex-King Aide" by Peter Applebome, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 1989.

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• Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

  Christopher Moore

  Dream, Kings, Years

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Psychics, Faithful

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• I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

  Spike Lee

  Dream, Kings, Needs

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• In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them all. At first John didn't know what the song was...although if he'd been asked what his name was, he would have said Santa Claus, or Luther Vandross, or Teddy Roosevelt. Maybe even Joan Collins.

  J.R. Ward

  Song, Warrior, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2960, Penguin

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• You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Awful, Firsts, First Time

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.205, Penguin

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• Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

  Sheena Easton

  Duets

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• Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Trouble, States, Has Beens

  "The Catholic Encyclopedia". Book edited by Charles George Herbermann, 1913.

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• I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Children, Kentucky, Ohio

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• Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the part where I faint in fear?" Luther bit his lip. "He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fall, Humble, Glasses

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.71, Penguin

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• Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Bottles, Juice, Grapes

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• Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

  Jon Stewart

  Kings, Character, People

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• Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Writing, Wrens

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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• The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther's ; it was his Comment on the Galatians! ... I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart ... I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Heart, Hands

  "The pilgrim's progress: from this world to that which is to come; delivered under the similitude of a dream".

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• Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father’s care.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Morning, Father, Worry

  Richard Wurmbrand (1968). “Christ in the Communist Prisons”

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• Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

  Don King

  Kings, Boxing, Mountain

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• Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, Kings

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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