Mordecai Wyatt Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Funny #Dog #Opportunity
The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Christian #Past #Men
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Loyalty #Grateful #Heart
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Responsibility #Equality #Liberty
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Hurt #Pain #Race
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Illusion #Determine
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#Heaven #Noise #Next

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson famous quotes

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