“White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"” MenHandsAbleLastsSpiritualBlackFreedomWhiteCatholicAncientJewThank GodAlmightyWhite ManProtestantsHolding HandsGentiles Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.” PeopleWantLastsHateCoursesBlackPrejudiceCatholicCatholicismBlack PeopleHomosexualRespectable Author:Tom Clancy
“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.” PeopleYearsStillsLightTodaySchoolUsedFeltSidesBlackWhiteAliveWorstPrejudicePressureCatholicWho You AreExcuseBlack PeopleLive For TodayExcuse MeElementary SchoolRacial PrejudiceCatholic SchoolWorst Times Author:Kevin michael
“We are not Black Muslims we are Muslims. You see, you have Catholics. You have Chinese Catholics, you have Indian Catholics, you have black Catholics and white Catholics. But I'm sure you don't ask a man are you a white Catholic? Are you a Chinese are you a yellow Catholic, a red Catholic, or a white Catholic? He's just a Catholic. We have black Muslims, we have brown Muslims, we have red Muslims, we have yellow Muslims, we have even white complected Muslims, so I'd like to clear that point, this is a press word, Black Muslims.” MenAsksBlackWhiteClearRedCatholicPressesChineseIndianBrownYellowBlack Cat Author:Muhammad Ali
“The Catholic church had a huge profound influence on me in that as you get older you realize that you can't blame everything; that there is good and bad, and things get misdirected. So I would call myself a black Catholic. I still have this attraction to it because all religions I'm not a fan of. I'm a fan of sort of belief in spirituality. So I would be into Christ rather than the Catholics.” SpiritualityBeliefBlackChristRealizingChurchInfluenceCatholicBlameProfoundAttractionGood And BadBlack Cat Author:Gavin Friday
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” MenChildrenStatesGodHandsHappensAbleLastsSpiritualBlackFreedomWhiteCitiesCatholicJewSpeedRingsVillageThank GodAlmightyWhite ManProtestantsFreedom LibertyPeace And JusticeI Had A DreamPeace JusticeGentilesI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechFreedom And PeaceMarch On WashingtonJoining Hands Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.” PeopleMenWorldPersonsBlackDifferencesWhiteIssuesSawsRepublicanMen And WomenCatholicDemocratSignificantDividedWhite ManProtestantsNineteenPureness Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.” PeopleIfsShouldBelieveReligionBlackChurchWhiteCatholicFakeHierarchyFake People Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.” RunningKidsAgeSchoolBlackWhiteFitCatholicAtheistNunAnomaliesCatholic School Author:Thandie Newton
“This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” WorldIdeasProblemTogetherCultureHousePoliticsBlackInterestWhiteMankindCatholicJewBlack And WhiteProtestantsWesternersGentiles Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.” BlackTermWhiteColorGayCatholicGreenHostEntertainersProtestantsBlack White Author:Eartha Kitt