James H. Cone Quotes
- To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the…
- Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression,…
- Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize…
- To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
- Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
- Black churches are very powerful forces in the African American community and always have been. Because religion has been that one place where you have…
- Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they…
- Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life…
- The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means…
- Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order…
- The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of…
- The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.
- If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
- One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.
- Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
- In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of…