“Because if we in America have reached the point in our desperate culture where we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive and probably won’t.” — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.” — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share
“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
