Best Luther Wisdom
249 Luther quotes by 192 unique authors
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Jon Stewart
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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…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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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…
— Ilona Andrews
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What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom…
— Martin Luther
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
— Jay-Z
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Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the…
— Bono
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It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of…
— Jon Stewart
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther.…
— Pascal Mercier
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Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther
— Dan Brown
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the…
— Aberjhani
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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet…
— Gustave Le Bon
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When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
— Martin Luther
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The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the…
— Selwyn Hughes
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I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, 'If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were…
— Tupac Shakur
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I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that…
— Columbus Short
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The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.
— James A. Forbes
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Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss…
— Bayard Rustin
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My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And…
— Monte Irvin
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The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand…
— Charlie Pierce
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Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
— Bobby Seale
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