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

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

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 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

You always feel that, wherever he is, George Graham will accomplish something.

— Martin O'Neill

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

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

— John S. Dickerson

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

— Jaime Harrison

[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in…

— Newt Gingrich

We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part…

— Cornel West

Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the…

— Bill Moyers

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

— William Bennett