Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.
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
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
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…
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
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…
The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind. - Timothy B. Tyson
The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.
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
Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting thing…
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
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 …
In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. - Timothy B. Tyson
In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth. - Timothy B. Tyson
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
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
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional na…
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