Quotes about Race

Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.