1920s Quote by Anthea Butler

The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers…

— Harry Belafonte

“the black church helped African Americans survive the harshest forms of oppression and developed a revolutionary appeal for universal communal spirituality. The black church…

— Anonymous

The American Catholic Church made statements on racism as far back as the 1940s and '50s. 'Colored' Catholic girls could not live in the…

— Anthea Butler

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I…

— Henry Louis Gates

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

— Clarence Thomas

Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion,…

— John Shelby Spong

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

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

— Tony Evans

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I…

— Cory Booker

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

— Anthea Butler

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision…

— Allen West

I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and Catholics (like…

— Ross Douthat