As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.