Jerry Falwell Quotes
Facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not cross it.
The fact that God had created distinct races was sufficient for Fallwell and many other racist clerics to assume that this meant that they should not learn together in the same schoolroom—an interesting theological leap. It is ironic but religion has been one of the most positive forces helping to end slavery and legal discrimination in America. At the same time, religion has served as one of the must substantial justifications for slavery, racism and discrimination.
Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007, Baptist Cleric, Founder, The Moral Majority, Opposing the Supreme Court Decision ending Segregation in Public School, 1964
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Warren a Republican from California who knew Palmer for years, stood up, put his arm around Palmer and told him, “Kyle, you and I will always be friends” and walked out.
Reconstruction was the period in the South after the Civil War. The change that emancipation brought to the white South was traumatic, and there was a constant struggle between those who wanted the Blacks to be integrated into Southern Society—and those Southerners who wanted to create a society that would be as close to slavery as possible, So the Klu Klux Klan and other terrorist organizations formed and with lynching and other intimidation, much of the initial progress of Reconstruction was rolled back and did not get reinstated until the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were passed in 1964.
Jones, like many religious leaders at the time was an inveterate racist. He not only branded anyone advocating against segregation as “in opposition to God”. Jones also solicited the support of the Ku Klux Klan, and like many clerics would never condemn the KKK beatings, tortures, lynchings and murders.
He was not only an atheist himself, but he was a major opponent of organized religion which he regarded as one or the major initiators and drivers of slavery, segregation and discrimination. For this reason he was critical of Martin Luther King—{583307}. His irreligiosity had always prevented his gaining much support from his fellow African Americans even though a great writer like H. L. Menken considered Schuyler, "the best writer in America".
The Boers were generally furious because the British emancipated the Blacks that the Boers were holding as slaves. This hurt their economic interests. But according to this woman in the middle of it all, the worst of it was the insult of giving the Blacks political and functional equality. This was really very similar to most American Southern racist feeling during Reconstruction. Racism is very pernicious, in that the remedies always bring about insult and anger because the belief structure of slavery and discrimination must be based in a theory of inferiority.
The first sentence is inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. The last two sentences are rarely quoted.
to have separate schools for Blacks
This quotation was one of the major reasons Carswell was rejected by the Senate.
Religion has been on both sides of the racism issue. In general, slavery the world over and in the American South needed the support of mainstream religions. At the same time, religion has been one of the major forces for abolition. The two mainstream Protestant religions of the South, the Baptists and the Methodists split from their Northern brethren in the 19th century over the slavery issue, and they have never united.
This was actually a very courageous statement for an American politician running for national office. As a result of the pressure of this statement President Franklin Roosevelt allowed Black enlistment in the Army Air Forces.
Booth was the younger son of a very prominent Northern family of actors. His older brother was considered the greatest American actor, and the rest of the family were abolitionists and vehement Union supporters. They found young John’s views reprehensible.
This widely publicized statement by Mr. Ethridge was made when he was a member of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices during the hearings of this Committee at Birmingham, Alabama.
His solution was not to change the prejudice or improve the opportunity for Blacks but to have complete separation of the races. See {625687}.
She was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation.
Jerry Lamon Falwell Sr. was an American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.
