We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.
To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.
Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
If I feel that somebody is hurting other people, then I'm going to make sure other people know - other people know about them.
Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.
Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
