Black Quote by Jesse Lee Peterson

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill…

— Tony Campolo

I think that one of the errors that social conservatives made - particularly Christian social conservatives - was a belief that they needed to…

— Ben Domenech

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

— Mike McCurry

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

— Barack Obama

Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have…

— Tony Evans

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

— Frances Fox Piven

“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists…

— J.D. Vance

Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.

— Jason Whitlock

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

— Tom Ford

The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally…

— Charles Murray