Following is a post from my friend and colleague Jim Rigby, Pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church here in Austin, Texas:

10 RADICAL MLK QUOTES YOU MAY NOT HEAR AT THE MARCH

“It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle — the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic.” – Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” – Inconvenient Hero

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy.” – I May Not Get There With You

“America is engaged in a war that seeks to turn the clock of history back and perpetuate white colonialism.” – Inconvenient Hero

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. … Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.” – Letter from Birmingham Jail

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” – Beyond Vietnam Speech

“What more pathetically reveals the irrelevancy of the church in present-day world affairs than its witness regarding war? In a world gone mad with arms buildups, chauvinistic passions, and imperialistic exploitation, the church has either endorsed these activities or remained appallingly silent.” – Strength To Love

“Nonviolent protest must now mature to a new level…mass civil disobedience…There must be more than a statement to the larger society, there must be a force that interrupts its functioning at some key point.” – Inconvenient Hero

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” – Letter from Birmingham Jail

“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.” – Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Jim’s sermon yesterday at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church utilized the text Matthew 7:1-5. It is a sermon that everyone needs to hear. It will be available on the St. Andrew’s website – http://www.staopen.org – in the next couple of days.