Behavior Quote by Anthea Butler

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal…

— Anthea Butler

Graham functioned as a megaphone for conservative biblical ideas that dovetailed with conservative politics, including family, sexual morality, and adherence to laws. He was…

— Anthea Butler

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

— Jerry Moran

“An insuperable difference of race, made by God and not by man, and of character and social condition, makes it plainly impossible for a…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“Billy Graham’s crusades likely marked the peak of mass evangelism.”

— John S. Dickerson

“They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't…

— Tina Fey

“even if it was because he didn’t want to deal with their being different, he didn’t treat them any differently. Which I think is…

— Tina Fey

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and…

— Malcolm X

“The initial impetus to cross lines of race and heritage with the Gospel of Jesus Christ arose not from a committee planning world evangelization,…

— D.A. Carson

His Christianity was muscular

— Benjamin Disraeli

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own…

— Penny Lernoux

“During America’s first century, racist theological ideas were absolutely critical to sanctioning the growth of American slavery and making it acceptable to the Christian…

— Ibram X. Kendi