Joseph Lowery
Joseph Lowery
Joseph Echols Loweryis an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the American civil rights movement. He later became the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his immediate successor, Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and participated in most of the major activities of the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s...
where-you-come where-you-are difficult
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.
taken where-you-come want
If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.
commitment people needs
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.
war mass-destruction weapons
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.
party republican methodists
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.
changed things-have-changed
Everything has changed and nothing has changed.
mass-destruction america people
We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.
jesus children prayer
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.
moving tired white
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.
determination thinking self
I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.
texas virginia florida
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.
history knew
We knew then that history was being made.
soul
would do a lot for his soul and his salvation.
bicycles buses came coming discovered people skates trucks washington
When we got to Washington that day and discovered people coming in trucks and buses and on planes, in cars, even some came on bicycles and skates -- we were overwhelmed by that response,