"My prayer is not for them alone [the 1st century disciples]. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." ~Jesus Christ (John 17:20-23 NIV)

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Racial and ethnic hostility is the foremost social problem facing our world today... Racism --- in the world and in the church --- is one of the greatest barriers to world evangelization. Racial and ethnic hatred is a sin, we need to label it as such."
~Billy Graham

"The church is segregated now because that's what we like. In Martin Luther King's era, churches were segregated because whites didn't want to be around blacks. Now it's two-sided. Today we both choose to be separate."
~John Perkins

"The great tragedy today is not so much that our society is still divided along racial, cultural, and ethnic lines. The tragedy is, rather, that God's people, the church, are equally or even more deeply divided." ~Dr. Tony Evans

"I believe the road to true reconciliation will involve whites coming on our turf, eating our food, listening to our music, and being uncomfortable as they experience faith, history, and culture through our eyes...

Minorities have long been learning from white Christians. We have learned their hymns, read their books, practiced their theories. But it is time for whites to recognize they can benefit from minority perspectives on life and faith. If whites do learn from minority Christians, this will enrich, embolden, and strengthen the whole church.

The shift from whites saying, 'What can I do for you?' to 'I need you' would signal that perhaps words and deeds are starting to come together."

~Andrés T. Tapia
Christianity Today Magazine

"I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and downgrade my soul by making me hate him. With God's help, I believe I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race... I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice."
~ Booker T. Washington

Ephesians 2:14

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. (NIV)

Colossians 3:11

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. (NIV)

2 Corinthians 5:17-19

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. (NIV)

Revelation 5:9

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. (KJV)