As John Howard Yoder has said, "If in society we believe in the rights of employees, then the church should be the first employer to deal with workers fairly. If in the wider society we call for the overcoming of racism or sexism or materialism, then the church should be the place where that possibility first becomes real.

Because they love God and others, they are willing to check their passions and will in order to do God's will, to further God's justice, and to express their longing that God act to establish his will and kingdom.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, "Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud." "I have a better idea," suggested Twain. "Why don't you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.