We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

- Timothy B. Tyson

Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teac…

- Timothy B. Tyson

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mas…

- Timothy B. Tyson

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

- Timothy B. Tyson

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting thing…

- Timothy B. Tyson

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help …

- Timothy B. Tyson

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

- Timothy B. Tyson

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

- Timothy B. Tyson

We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional na…

- Timothy B. Tyson