America Quote by 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

Graham may have wanted integration, but instead, he promoted gradualism and provided absolution for racists hiding behind a Christianity attuned not only to Jesus…

— 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

“ The Baptists gave the South Billy Graham and Stonewall Jackson. The Methodists gave the South Martin Luther King, Jr. (Not that we’re reading…

— Deborah Ford

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have…

— Jimmy Carter

Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of his congregation…

— Julia Scheeres

“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed to slavery.…

— Andrew Himes

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding…

— Ross Douthat

Look at what Billy Graham has done, he's a legend. He would never tell you that, but look at the history, all the way…

— Michael W. Smith

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

— John S. Dickerson

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills…

— Jesse Helms

“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.”

— Christian Smith