Top 31 Quotes About Ralph Abernathy

#1. What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

E. M. Forster

#2. Christ's incarnation was less a reaction or response than it was a proactive demonstration of love:

John S. Dickerson

#3. The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Ralph Abernathy

#4. The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

George Gordon Byron

#5. We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry A. Kissinger

#6. Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Ralph Abernathy

#7. I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom ... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

Ralph Abernathy

#8. I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Ralph Abernathy

#9. A lot of my dreams have to do with animals I think because I'm such a huge animal lover. I have so many pets. I always have crazy dreams where I'm like riding an elephant through the jungle or hanging out with a bunch of monkeys.

Paris Hilton

#10. The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

Auguste Rodin

#11. History will treat me right.

Ralph Abernathy

#12. Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

Ralph Abernathy

#13. It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Ralph Abernathy

#14. If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

Taylor Lautner

#15. I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

Ralph Abernathy

#16. Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.

Janet Taylor Lisle

#17. If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

Ralph Abernathy

#18. There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

Isaac D'Israeli

#19. I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

Ralph Abernathy

#20. I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

Ralph Abernathy

#21. You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Ralph Abernathy

#22. To dwell is to garden.

Martin Heidegger

#23. I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11 ... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

Kenneth Branagh

#24. I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Ralph Abernathy

#25. Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

Ralph Abernathy

#26. I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

Ralph Abernathy

#27. He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Ralph Abernathy

#28. Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Ralph Abernathy

#29. Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

Robert H. Schuller

#30. Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Ralph Abernathy

#31. I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

Ralph Abernathy

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