The Black church has been the conscience of America.

The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture…

— Billy Graham

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of…

— Herbert Hoover

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself.…

— Malcolm X

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“Harvard professor Robert Putnam’s ground-breaking book Bowling Alone stirred the conscience of America in 2001, when he showed that we sign fewer petitions, belong…

— David Timms

When we say the Black church, we have never meant anything racially exclusive by that. The Black church is the antislavery church. It is…

— Raphael Warnock

What's funny is that in the '90s, growing up in the black church, everyone around you was older, so your swag became older.

— Kirk Franklin

You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men,…

— Andre Braugher

As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have…

— David Oyelowo

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

— Donna Brazile

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm…

— Harry Lennix

Within church communities, within black communities, and within black church communities, gossip is thy friend. Gossip will be thy friend!

— Ncuti Gatwa

The black church will accept anybody.

— James McBride