It gave me an opportunity to define Black Power as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied. Oppression in any form was a denial of a people's humanity, and the oppressed must use whatever power they have to defend their humanity. Defending one's humanity against an oppressive political system was not only a human but a Christian responsibility. Indeed Jesus came to liberate the oppressed. That was the message of Black Power. Jesus and Black Power were advocating the same thing. If we didn't think Black Power was Christian it was because we had accepted an interpretation
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