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...
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Americans have decided the war's over, and it's time to bring the troops home.
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The Mothers in Iraq Call Us the Terrorists
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I think (they waited) because they still had others to interview ... and at the time Mr. King was still weighing the possibility himself, ... His experience has given him more training than anyone else.
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He's certainly been exposed to the civil rights community in unparalleled fashion, ... The name Martin Luther King still has some magic.
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He missed an opportunity to name somebody to the courts with the spirit of Rosa Parks, with diversity and minority rights.
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I don't think he had the intelligence to plan, orchestrate and execute any such action, ... He may or may not know exactly who used him, but I think he knows more than he has revealed.
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I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.
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It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.
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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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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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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.
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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.