QUOTES
"My
humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Because
there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions
of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving.
And yet, just a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would
make a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated,
and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.
Diversity
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together,
black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
Freedom
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend
too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
Human
Rights
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown
from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full
menu of rights.
Justice
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor.
Forgiveness
"Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are
treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the
way they are."
"Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly
activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because
in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future."
Freedom
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford
to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we
shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given
a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will
walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh
scrutiny of history.'
Other
Quotes
When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and
we had the land. They said, "Let us pray". We closed our eyes. When we opened
them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
“Together
we will work to support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there
is conflict, and inspire hope where there is despair.”
"What
we need today is an upsurge of international courage, moral indignation and human
solidarity to demand action to end the crimes being committed against the innocent
in war."
