Luther Quotes

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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

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

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

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.

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

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

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.

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.

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

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

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

[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.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

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.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

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

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

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

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

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

Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

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

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

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

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

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

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.