Black Church Quotes - Page 2

• Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

  Isaiah Washington

  Black, Church, Juniors

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have Hispanic churches. It's not really reflective of the world we live in, by and large, in America.

  David Oyelowo

  Sunday, White, America

  Source: www.ncregister.com

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• Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

  Donna Brazile

  Community, Black, Church

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, White, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.

  Michael Emerson

  Strong, Somewhere Else, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers and what went on in the Black church, I was more caught up with those who were in Cadillacs and shiny suits than I was with those who were Kingian in their style.

  Harry Belafonte

  Attitude, Catholic, Black

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

  Robert Duvall

  Virginia, Years, Black

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• This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

  Mr. Wrestling

  White, People, Heaven

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• Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.

  Michael Emerson

  Average, White, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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