Able Quote by Susan Jacoby

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't…

— Simon Schama

“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 certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely. Is there…

— Michael Emerson

“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

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

I mean, when you think about politics and advocacy in general, so much of it was born out of black church and it really…

— Jasmine Crockett

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Nobody on the outside thought it would work … and on the inside we were not too sure either. In our limited circle of…

— John Dr. Fuder

“[T]he Black Church's inflexibility on same-sex marriage and homophobia continues to imperil the moral health and social capital of communities of color. It is…

— Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars

I thought the evangelical church was living out true unity in Christ without regard for race. That has certainly been my experience in every…

— John MacArthur

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 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