How to Fight Racism Quotes

“But only what is revealed can be healed. It does no service to a community to hide its shortcomings. Failures of racial justice must be faced with humility, truth, and courage.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“If you have not learned to lament, you have not learned to love. To love someone is to know and be known, which means opening oneself up to the possibility of being hurt by another.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“You may have desegregated your leadership team, but that does not mean you have an integrated team. Integration means incorporating diverse perspectives, people, and practices into an organization so that the culture expands to include diversity while maintaining unity.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“When evangelicals focus on bringing people together, they often leave out any analysis of the systemic and institutional forces that led to the separation in the first place. Occasional racial proximity is too low a goal for reconciliation.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“This book prioritizes the practical.12 The ARC of Racial Justice How to Fight Racism is structured around a model I created called the ARC of Racial Justice. ARC is an acronym that stands for awareness, relationships, and commitment”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“This person made in God’s image and likeness became another victim of racism, anti-Black police brutality, and white supremacy.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“We must look at outcomes to evaluate whether a policy moves us further toward racial justice or further from it.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“Instead of focusing on intent, more attention should be paid to the impact or outcome of an action”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“In order to effectively fight racism, we must learn from the past. Contrary to the popular saying, historians are quick to point out that history does not, in fact, repeat itself. Historical events are too circumstantial and too contingent on a multitude of factors, decisions, actors, and conditions to ever simply repeat. But history does rhyme. We can hear cadences and syncopations of the past in the present. Learning about history is more than learning about what has happened before, it is about understanding what is happening now.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“coming to appreciate one idea or part of a system of thought, philosophy, or theology does not necessarily mean you are endorsing every aspect of that system.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice

“The past unavoidably impacts the present. If we want to pursue racial justice today, then we need to know what happened in the past to create the circumstances of the present. History provides the vital context to pursue solutions that are rooted in a firm understanding in the causes and consequences of racism.”
― Jemar Tisby, How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice