Audience Quote by Jerry Moran

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

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

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

— John S. Dickerson

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

“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, ‘What a lovely sermon!’ but ‘I will do something.’” — Billy…

— Ken Hensley

The false black preacher is only too happy to reinforce the idea of the white man as scapegoat. His sermons make the congregation angrier…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

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

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

— Billy Graham

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

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

— Pat Buchanan

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and…

— Michael Eric Dyson