Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.