America Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

“The black church is quite literally a sounding board for vetting ideas and voicing frustrations so black folk can stay sane in the midst…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm…

— Harry Lennix

The Black church has been the conscience of America.

— Raphael Warnock

“But I remain what I was when I started my vocation, my pilgrimage of self-discovery: a black preacher. It is for that reason that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

— Oprah Winfrey

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in…

— Cornel West

When we say the Black church, we have never meant anything racially exclusive by that. The Black church is the antislavery church. It is…

— Raphael Warnock

“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a…

— Malcolm X

“Their sermons help black folk resist the evil seductions of white supremacy. Very few members go away from such homilies without hope for their…

— Michael Eric Dyson

When a black church is hit in South Carolina by someone with hate in their spirit, that's something that touches all of America, but…

— Harris Faulkner

“Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and…

— Janelle Gray