Anthea Butler Quotes

United States, Educator
August 6, 1956

Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the Chair of the Council of Graduate Studies in Religion, and in 2005 was the President for the Society of Pentecostal Studies. She is the author of and Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World on The University of North Carolina Press.

My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass during the sign of peace.

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- Peace
- Memories
- Mass
Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

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Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

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- Lives
- Dignity
- Stripping
As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain't my god.

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- Care
- Rights
- Remind
If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

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- Free
- Speech
- Professor
The prosperity gospel and its purveyors are worldwide and account for the rapid growth of Pentecostalism, the global religious movement prosperity preachers come from.

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- Growth
- Gospel
- Global
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.

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- Daily
- Racial
- Incidents
Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.

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- Jesus
- Legacy
- Tool

Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.

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- Stories
- Victims
- Judges
God ain't good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us.

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- Good
- God
- Fact