Mike McCurry Quotes

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. - motivated by his faith - brought about an end to segregation in our country.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world.

God’s Politics: Why the Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it.

All the motive power in all of these [activist and revolutionary] movements is the instinct of religious feeling.

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

The Roman Catholic influence did not lend itself to activism in terms of social change.

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.