Original scientific paper

“A Way Out of No Way”: A Note on the Background of the African American Proverbial Saying

Charles Clay Doyle orcid.org/0000-0001-7070-8811

Abstract

The proverbial phrase “make a way out of no way,” common in the rhetoric of Martin Luther King and other African American writers and speakers in the twentieth century, was anticipated by very similar expressions among nineteenth-century Quakers—and before that by a sixteenth century Protestant Reformer.

Keywords

English proverbs; historical proverb study; African American proverbs; Quaker proverbs; Martin Luther King; Andrew Young; John Calvin

Hrčak ID:

278365

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278365

Publication date:

31.8.2014.

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