Quote by 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 and authority…

— 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 followers to…

— 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 element; history…

— 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 them.

— 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 narrative is…

— 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 a-tumbling down.…

— 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, which generally…

— 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 acknowledge the…

— 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 confront the…

— 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 enduring chasm…

— 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 grip—even, and…

— Timothy B. Tyson