Timothy B. Tyson

“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

“Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor…

— Timothy B. Tyson

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of…

— Timothy B. Tyson

Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important…

— Timothy B. Tyson

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

— Timothy B. Tyson

We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Oxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find,…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don’t understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

“When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“The world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…”

— Timothy B. Tyson

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting…

— Timothy B. Tyson

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

— Timothy B. Tyson

“What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

“He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Because if we in America have reached the point in our desperate culture where we must murder children, no matter for what…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

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

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.”

— Timothy B. Tyson