The truth of this text is revealed in the contemporary struggle between good in the form of freedom and justice, and evil in the form of oppression and colonialism. Of the approximately 3,000,000,000 people in our world, more than 1,900,000,000—a vast majority—live on the continents of Asia and Africa. Less than two decades ago most of the Asian an

them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion.

History is the story of evil forces that advance with seemingly irresistible power only to be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice.

I would limit my response to an assertion that much of the evil which we experience is caused by man’s folly and ignorance and also by the misuse of his freedom.

in its theoretical formulation it envisages a world society transcending the superficialities of race and color, class, and caste. Membership in the Communist party theoretically is not determined by the color of a man’s skin or the quality of blood in his veins.

they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with r

In many instances the church has so aligned itself with the privileged classes and so defended the status quo that it has been unwilling to answer the knock at midnight.