We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.