American Quote by Anthea Butler

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

— Anthea Butler

I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out…

— Kevin michael

“It was weird to me to go to school all week and experience racial diversity, but then on Sunday be faced with the option…

— Efrem Smith

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

Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it…

— Immortal Technique

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not…

— Kevin DeYoung

Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the…

— Anthea Butler

“Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority…

— Timothy B. Tyson

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

— Daniel Kaluuya

Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.

— Anthea Butler

“Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Clarence Thomas