While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the result…

- James H. Cone

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reason…

- James H. Cone

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectua…

- James H. Cone

Black churches are very powerful forces in the African American community and always have been. Because religion has been that one place where you ha…

- James H. Cone

In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invad…

- James H. Cone

The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white peo…

- James H. Cone

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

- James H. Cone

Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to op…

- James H. Cone

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the tru…

- James H. Cone