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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We knew then that history was being made.
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the right person at the right time in history.
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Rosa Parks was known as the queen mother of the movement. She sat down so that her people could stand up,
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I woke up early this morning with Coretta and Rosa on my heart. And I grabbed a piece of paper and I wrote what a great family reunion is going on ... now they're together, Martin and Coretta, after nearly 40 years apart. What a family reunion. It warmed my heart.
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I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,
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The queen mother of the movement has passed from earth to glory,
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Here's a man who may have a major-league arm, but he's got a bush-league attitude.
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She also gave impetus to the move to start the holiday. They could say no to John Conyers, but it wasn't the same as saying no to King's widow. She was a powerful force in getting that legislation through. She provided the opportunity for politicians to favor it without seeming to favor the agitators.
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make sure there's no abuse of citizens who want to exercise their right to vote.
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What was not on the national radar screen has exploded onto television screens, ... We know now that the faces of poverty are black and brown, painful and anguished. Let this nation rise up to eliminate poverty and the faces of poverty vanish from the American scene.
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The president of these United States engaged in ceremony in the rotunda, but he stopped short of sacrament when 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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That's poll tax and both the Voting Rights Act and court rulings have said there can be no cost imposed for the right to vote.
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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,
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would do a lot for his soul and his salvation.