Racial Reconciliation Quotes

“This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“Therefore, humans were all created equally and are all the same. All blood runs red!”
― Octavia Yvonne Webb, Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era

“The work of reconciliation will flow when we turn our hearts to humbly listen to each other and open our eyes to see God’s image in one another.”
― Octavia Yvonne Webb, Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try to temporize, negotiate small, inadequate changes and prolong the timetable of freedom in the hope that the narcotics of delay will dull the pain of progress. We can try, but we shall certainly fail. The shape of the world will not permit us the luxury of gradualism and procrastination. Not only is it immoral, it will not work It will not work because Negroes know they have the right to be free. It will not work because Negroes have discovered, in nonviolent direct action, an irresistible force to propel what has been for so long an immovable object. It will not work because it retards the progress not only of the Negro, but of the nation as a whole.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.”
― John Piper, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian

“The difficult topic of racial reconciliation requires the intersection of celebration and suffering.”
― Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times