Radical Reconciliation Quotes

“Reconciliation for the powerful and privileged means trusting those who have lived under oppression and even following their lead in becoming one new humanity.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

“As long as there is one single child on the cross of pain, and indignity, of suffering, and futurelessness, I will stand up and I will fight for that child—a crucified child is my child. That is what solidarity means: every child on a cross is my child.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

“Unjust systems appear normal to those in power, and any change will produce feelings of loss. True reconciliation, through the cross of Jesus, will affect the lives of the privileged. The colonizer has to completely leave the confines of power and privilege and join with those who are colonized. Of the colonizer Memmi declared, “let him adopt the colonized people and be adopted by them; let him become a turncoat.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

“reconciliation is radical because it is biblical.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

“This book is a call for reconciliation in society that is radical, that goes to the roots.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

“Reconciliation is often assumed to mean white institutions adding or including persons of color but never transforming the central identity from white (and male) to a truly inclusive human identity.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism

“Reconciliation and social justice are two sides of the same coin.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism