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His brother died in his arms, shot by a deputy marshal. He was beaten and tortured by the sheriff and state police. But through it all he returned good for evil, love for hate, progress for prejudice, and brought hope to black and white alike. The story of John Perkins is no ordinary story. Rather, it is a gripping portrayal of what happens when faith thrusts a person into the midst of a struggle...

many of my people humble down to the white-dominated system with all its injustices. Religion had made them cowards and Uncle Toms. But I was a Perkins and I wasn’t like that at all. No way was I like that. So I did not see the black Church as relevant to me and my needs. And I did not see white Christianity as meaningful either. To me it was part of that whole system that helped dehumanize and destroy black people—that system that identified me as a nigger. So how could the white Church really be concerned