Luther quotes
37 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him."
"Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him."
"Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded."
"Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther"
"I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like.""
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"Martin Luther King was an extremist of love."
"Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's."
"Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural."
"Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself."
"Luther Vandross was doing fine, but he said, "Man, I want to do my own project." So he got us all to do a demo, and that demo was "Never Too Much." It took him a year and a half to get signed, because he didn't have a gimmick. The record companies were looking for his gimmick. They said, "What's your gimmick?" He said, "I sing. That's my gimmick." Anyway, he finally got signed and the record was released, and the rest was history."
"'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say."
"Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!""
