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His message focused on the urgency of a radical change in the inner attitude of the people. He recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming, can at long last destroy a people if it does not first win the victory of the spirit against them. “To revile because one has been re
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Peace, Walter Brueggemann
Lisa Sharon Harper • The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
from the perspective of the dominant class in Israel.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Restorative Justice
"A leader is somebody who has to jump in the middle of the fray and be prudential, we hope, rather than opportunistic," West wrote in his 2014 book Black Prophetic Fire, "But a prophetic person tells the truth, exposes lies, bears witness and then, usually, is pushed to the margins or shot dead." - Cornel West
This is really the form that the dilemma takes. It is not solely a question of keeping the body alive; it is rather how not to be killed. Not to be killed becomes the great end, and morality takes its meaning from that center. Until that center is shifted, nothing real can be accomplished. It is the uncanny and perhaps unwitting recognition of this
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