Age Quote by Megan Phelps-Roper

Several people I had conversations with were hugely influential. People who found internal inconsistency in Westboro's ideology. It was the first thing that allowed…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

In the era of Donald Trump the echoes of Westboro are undeniable: the division of the world into Us and Them; the vilification of…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller but still…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Since leaving the church, I've been working with law enforcement involved in counterterrorism and deradicalization. I hoped that illuminating Westboro's ideology - and especially…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

If organizations like Westboro were universally bad, they wouldn't exist. There had to be some draw, and at Westboro, there was a lot of…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

— Roselyne Bosch

My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

“I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Before the advent of the web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched…

— Ellen Ullman

... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure…

— Mary Church Terrell

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

— Adrian Tomine

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

— Jessie Sampter