Joseph Lowery Quotes

#1. Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

Joseph Lowery

#2. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#3. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#4. It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

Joseph Lowery

#5. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#6. It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.

Sophocles

#7. It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

Maura Tierney

#8. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#9. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#10. And just then, in one of those unbidden flashes of insight, it occurred to him that nothing was meaningless, that everything in the world was connected to everything else.

Paul Auster

#11. I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Rob Bell

#12. You gotsta love all God's children!

Joseph Lowery

#13. Religion is a set of rituals.

Debasish Mridha

#14. There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50.

Craig Lancaster

#15. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#16. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#17. The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.

Robert LaSardo

#18. 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.

Joseph Lowery

#19. The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

Joe Bradley

#20. Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

Joseph Lowery

#21. If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Joseph Lowery

#22. We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

Joseph Lowery

#23. Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest ... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Josephine Baker

#24. A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully - through tears. 6

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#25. I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Joseph Lowery

#26. Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Ernest Renan