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...
changed things-have-changed
Everything has changed and nothing has changed.
party republican methodists
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.
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.
children
You gotsta love all God's children!
taken where-you-come want
If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.
men yellow white
We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get 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.
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.
coke hamburgers please
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.
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.