“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them to feel their full effects in the deepest layers of my consciousness.” — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.” — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down.… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“Oxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find, which generally… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don’t understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip—even, and… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.” — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
