

“The most sensitive whites merely said: “We deplore the riots but sympathize with the reason for the riots.� This was tantamount to saying: “Of course we raped your women, lynched your men, and ghettoized the minds of your children and you have a right to be upset; but that is no reason for you to burn our buildings. If you people keep acting like that, we will never give you your freedom.”
― God of the Oppressed
― God of the Oppressed

“It never ceased to amaze me how white scholars could quibble, making simple things more complicated than they really were. What is more central in the Christian Bible than the exodus and Jesus stories and the prophetic call for justice for the poor?”
― Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
― Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian

“If white Americans could look at the terror they inflicted on their own black population—slavery, segregation, and lynching—then they might be able to understand what is coming at them from others.”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree

“When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow’s empathy with black suffering, however, he said, “I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice.”[29]”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree

“It is this fact that most whites seem to overlook: the fact that violence already exists. The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil and good. He decides between the less and the greater evil. He must ponder whether revolutionary violence is less or more deplorable than the violence perpetuated by the system. There are no absolute rules which can decide the answer with certainty. But he must make a choice. If he decides to take the "nonviolent" way, then he is saying that revolutionary violence is more detrimental to man in the long run than systemic violence. But if the system is evil, then revolutionary violence is both justified and necessary.”
― Black Theology and Black Power
― Black Theology and Black Power
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