"In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist."
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
“A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?”
"[The church's task is] not simply to bind the wounds of the victims beneath the wheel, but also to put a spoke in the wheel itself."
"...an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else."