"...our ability to connect the excess in our lives to the lack in our neighbors' lives attests to our new life in Christ." D. Gilliard (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Tag: racial justice
Quote of Note #261: Accountable Policing
"We are being the Christians God called us to be when we remind the state of the limits of its power." E. McCaulley (For complete quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #260: Justice & the Power of Privilege
"Privilege aborts justice, leading judicial systems, power structures, and governments to treat a person or group preferentially--with more compassion and dignity than others...." (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #254: Not by Violence but by Self-Giving Love
"At the heart of John’s kingdom theology is God’s love revealed in the death of his Son, the Lamb, the Messiah. This is conquest, but by love. This is power, but in weakness. This is kingship, but in self-giving suffering for others." Wright & Bird (For the full quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #253: Justice Rooted in Love
"Love is the fiery heart beating at the center of the urgent call for justice in our world." J. Tisby (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #229: To Build Something Beautiful Together
"I'm an old man, and this is one of my dreams: that my descendants will one day live in a land where people are quick to confess their wrongdoing and forgive the wrongdoing of others and are eager to build something beautiful together." J. Perkins (click link for full quote)
Quote of Note #227: Camouflaged Racism
"Racism is designed to be invisible to white people . . . so when they are confronted by the reality of racism, it can offend their sense of personal innocence." J. Tisby
Quote of Note #225: White Supremacy & “Unjust Forgetting”
"The project of white supremacy has always been a project of erasure, sweeping under the rugs, wiping away from pages, actively distorting the story of us, what [Viet Thanh] Nguyen calls unjust forgetting." D. Stewart
Quote of Note #216: A Call to Confession
"Friends, I say this with compassion and love: We are not innocent. There is blood on our hands. We and our fathers have turned a deaf ear to our neighbors." John Perkins (click link below to read more)
Quote of Note #210: We Will Still Love You
"Do what you will, and we shall still love you. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws, because noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good." MLK, Jr.
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