“It does not matter what oppressors say or do or what they try to make us out to be. We know that we have a freedom not made with human hands. It is faith that defines our person, and thus enables black people to sing when the world says that we have nothing to sing about, to pray when prayer seems useless to theologians and philosophers, and to preach when the world will not listen.” James Cone, The God of the Oppressed

Black Student Alliance Members Planning for Black Culture Week, 1979

“This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of…annihilation: dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives: truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless calvaries: and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a non-conforming minority.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Transformed Nonconformist, 1954