Alisa Harris Quotes

[O]ur primary job as Christians is to love people, and we can't love from behind a barricade. But we have other God-given responsibilities too - to fight against those who make unjust decrees, rob the needy, and deprive the poor of their rights. We can make political the things that are political and make spiritual the things that are spiritual.

Conservatives argue that this human tendency toward corruption means that unemployment benefits and government health insurance will make the poor lazy, that they will become food stamp gobblers with no incentive to work for themselves. But I side with the poor and powerless since - as we've seen - they have far less ability to destroy all our lives.

[W]hen injustice, robbery, and inequity are not just individual but institutional, it's time to take a political stand.

I struggle to let go of the drive to dominate and instead remember that heaven isn't forced on earth through my pursuit of power.

[T]he Bible is neither an eighteenth-nor a twenty-first-century policy textbook. It endorses neither the fiefdom nor the global superpower. America is not a "uniquely Christian" nation, and it never was.