Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.