1954
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
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Theologian James Cone and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Taylor Branch join Bill to discuss Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of economic justice in addition to racial equality, and why so little has changed for America’s most oppressed.
Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.
The Rev. Traci Blackmon, Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries United Church of Christ, marks the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
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A right delayed is a right denied.
There is no gain without struggle.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.