Believe Quote by Norman Mailer

“No segment of White Christian America has been more complicit in the nation’s fraught racial history than white evangelical Protestants.”

— Robert P. Jones

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore,…

— Bertrand Russell

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

It's a long way from Martin Luther's 'On the Freedom of a Christian' to 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and a vigorous Protestantism should be able…

— Ross Douthat

“Native-born Protestants loathed and oppressed Catholics and immigrants, and Catholics and immigrants scorned and murdered Negroes, as if each group fed off its hate,…

— Noah Gordon

“the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the…

— Martin Luther

“The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply…

— H.L. Mencken

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in…

— Richard Allen

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“And if one despairs—as who has not?—of human love, God’s love alone is left. But God—and I felt this even then, so long ago,…

— James Baldwin

“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to each other…

— Maya Angelou

“Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools,…

— Jerome Lawrence