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Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Dadd...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

In politics, regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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 number of people organize a movement powerful enough to p...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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 loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to t...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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 commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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 disadv...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story