James H. Cone

Quotes

• “Black Power seeks not understanding but conflict; addresses blacks and not whites; seeks to develop black support, but not white good will.”
• “In Christ, God enters human affairs and takes sides with the oppressed. Their suffering becomes his; their despair, divine despair. Through Christ the poor man is offered freedom now to rebel against that which makes him other than human.”
• “Jesus had little toleration for the middle- or upper-class religious snob whose attitude attempted to usurp the sovereignty of God and destroy the dignity of the poor. The Kingdom is for the poor and not the rich because the former has nothing to expect from the world while the latter's entire existence is grounded in his commitment to worldly things. The poor man may expect everything from God, while the rich man may expect nothing because he refuses to free himself from his own pride.”
• “A man is free when he sees clearly the fulfillment of his being and is thus capable of making the envisioned self a reality.”
• “As long as man is a slave to another power, he is not free to serve God with mature responsibility. He is not free to become what he is—human.”
• “Racism is a complete denial of the Incarnation and thus of Christianity. ... If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist (or "the principalities and powers"), the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It was the white "Christian" church which took the lead in establishing slavery as an institution and segregation as a pattern in society by sanctioning all-white congregations.”

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