Becoming King Quotes

“When religion becomes [so] involved in a future good ,over yonder' that it forgets the present evils `over here' it is a dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.i13”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

“The Christian ought always to begin with a bias in favor of a movement which protests against the unfair treatment of the poor, for surely Christianity is itself such a protest.”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

“While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

“Charles Payne suggested that Montgomery was largely a willed phenomenon, a history made by everyday people who were willing to do their spadework, not one shaped entirely by impersonal social forces or great individual leadership.”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

“The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere.”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

“King not only encouraged church members to become registered voters and NAACP leaders but also to see the Southern Jim Crow system as part of a passing global order of colonialism and imperialism.”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader

“Marxian thought, King argued, should challenge Christians to express their own "passion and concern for social justice".”
― Troy Jackson, Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader