Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Lowery

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Joseph Echols Lowery was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving as its vice president, later chairman of the board, and from 1977 to 1997 its president. Lowery participated in most of the major activities of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued his civil rights work into the 21st century. He was called the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement."

Born: October 6, 1921

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I am in the valley of prayer on the issue of gay marriage, and I will err on the side of inclusiveness and not exclusion. I'm going to follow Jesus and say, Whosoever will, let them come. And I'm going to extend rights to all of God's children and if I am wrong, God will have to judge me.

Joseph Lowery

Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

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Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

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We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

Joseph Lowery

GM is pursuing gasoline-savings solutions on many fronts on the way to our ultimate vision of hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation. E85 ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline and is a renewable, domestic fuel that can enhance the nation's economy and energy security.

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It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

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We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

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We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

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I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

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If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

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Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

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By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.

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You gotsta love all God's children!

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'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

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I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

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