48 Quotes by Joseph Lowery

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.

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

The queen mother of the movement has passed from earth to glory,

We knew then that history was being made.

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,

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.

the right person at the right time in history.

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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