Lowell Noble's Favorite Quotations

Lowell Noble's Favorite Quotations:

Jesus:  "The Spirit has anointed me [and the church] . . . to release the oppressed."

The Pledge:  " . . . with liberty and JUSTICE FOR ALL."

Billy Graham:  "I have come to see in deeper ways the implications of my faith.  I can no longer proclaim the Cross and the Resurrection without proclaiming the whole message of the Kingdom of God which is JUSTICE FOR ALL."

The Reformed Church:  "Justice is broken."

Thomas Hanks:  "Oppression smashes the body and crushes the spirit."

Mississippian Lee Harper:  "For injustice ran deep and cloaked itself well among those things that appeared just [the church]."

Martin Luther King:  "In 1963 I talked to the nation about a Dream I had. . . .  [In 1967] I saw that Dream turn into a Nightmare. . . .  Black brothers and sisters on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of [white] prosperity."

Orlando Patterson:  "The simple, sad truth is that Afro-Americans are today the loneliest of all Americans---lonely and isolated as [an ethnic] group; lonely and isolated in their [segregated] neighborhoods; lonely as households headed by women sick and tired of being 'the strong black woman'; lonely as single men fearful of commitment; lonely as single women wary of a 'love and trouble' tradition that has always been more trouble than love."

Mississippian John Perkins:  "How do we restore and practice justice in a society bent on injustice?" in both the South and North.

Martin Luther King:  "I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values."

Haitian Jean Thomas:  "I am at home with the poor."

John Perkins, about the poor:  "Affirm their dignity, and release their own creativity."

Graham Cray:  "The agenda of the kingdom of God is justice; the dynamic is the Holy Spirit."

Multi-billionarie Warren Buffet:  "There is class warfare, all right, but it is my class, the rich, that's making war and winning [and the poor are losing]."

Haitian Jean Thomas:  "God established the Jubilee---when all debts are forgiven, slavery is abolished, and properties are restored---to ensure that no one in his kingdom would be poor forever."

Matthew 6:33 NEB:  "Set your mind on God's kingdom and his justice above everything else."