“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. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing… — 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 was a good thing, and if there was controversy over it, that was not a bad thing thing, either. People needed to work through these things, and not just in the abstract.” — 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 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 was a good thing, because that meant that the weather was nice, except when it was hot enough to fry pork chops on the pavement, and the food was delicious, though it would thicken the walls… — 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 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
