David > David's Quotes

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro. What greater heresy has religion known? Ethical Christianity vanished and the moral nerve of religion was atrophied. This terrible distortion sullied the essential nature of Christianity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?