Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money, proposing an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. His refusal to renounce all of his...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth10 November 1483
CityEisleben, Germany
CountryGermany
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
Truth crushed to earth will rise again.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.
We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child- bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for
Everything done in the world is done by hope.