My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

I am because other people are.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.