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

“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...”

“The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.”

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

“Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough numb...”

“It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loya...”

“...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.”

“A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.”

“All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is l...”

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and w...”

“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”

“When you get the opportunity to lead, remember it is a noble opportunity not just to amass followers, but to nurture true and great leaders who can do even great things than you!”

“Who was Hitler" demanded little Tracy"He was this bloke in World War Two" explained Ben.”

“War ends at the moment when peace permanently wins out. Not when the articles of surrender are signed or the last shot is fired, but when the last shout of a sidewalk battle fades, when the next ge...”

“I dont know much about psychoanalysis, but I dont believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.”