This is at the very heart of the Christian gospel. God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, . . . The climax of this universality is expressed in the fact that Christ died for all mankind. This broad universality standing at the center of the Gospel makes brotherhood morally inescapable. Racial segregation is a blatant denial of the unity which we all have in Christ.
Segregation is a tragic evil that is utterly un-Christian.
It substitutes the person-thing relationship for the person to person relationship. The philosophy of Christianity is strongly opposed to the underlying philosophy of segregation. Therefore, every Christian is confronted with the basic responsibility of working courageously for a non-segregated society. The task of conquering segregation is an inescapable must confronting the Christian churches. Much progress has been made toward the goal of a non-segregated society, but we are still far from the promised land.