The acid test of any truth is ...

The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
 James H. Cone

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To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.
 James H. Cone
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
 James H. Cone
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
 James H. Cone
Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.
 James H. Cone