Abolition Quote by Simon Schama

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

“Religion can be a good thing. Churches did black folks good after Reconstruction. It was the only place people like Nat Turner and Douglass…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

“the black church helped African Americans survive the harshest forms of oppression and developed a revolutionary appeal for universal communal spirituality. The black church…

— Anonymous

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of…

— Culbert Olson

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation,…

— Susan Jacoby

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

— 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

“Religious beliefs are culture bound…land overwhelmed by poverty, overcrowding, starvation, disease, class oppression and lack of any hope for a better future were what…

— Irvin D. Yalom

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Other possible approaches demand more respect. For one thing, we must be careful in describing a religion as extinct, either entirely, or in a…

— Philip Jenkins

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would…

— Bill Maher