Luther Quotes

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

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.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

I need to hear something about how he's going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that's not heard, then we've got to constantly challenge him.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

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.

I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.

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

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

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

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.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

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

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

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.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

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

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can be so different. There's not yet an Obama voice.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.

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.

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

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

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door.

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

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

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

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

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

I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.