"If the church ... does not make God's liberation of the oppressed central in its mission and proclamation, how can it rest easy with a condemned criminal as the dominant symbol of its message?"
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James Cone, Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986), p. 6
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