I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

- Joseph Lowery

'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

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

- Joseph Lowery

You gotsta love all God's children!

- Joseph Lowery

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

- Joseph Lowery

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... whe…

- Joseph Lowery

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

- Joseph Lowery

Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from w…

- Joseph Lowery

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