“The fact that this [election] could happen in a country with as tragic a racial past as America's says something noble and fine about the American experiment and the glorious ‘opportunity democracy' it has spawned. After much struggle, we as a nation have chosen to live up to the promises of our founding documents: We believe ‘that all men are created equal.' ”
Richard Land
President of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (BP)
“As a nation, we will never think of ourselves the same way again. Americans rich and poor, black and white, old and young, will look to an African-American man and know him as president of the United States.”
Albert Mohler
VPresident of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (BP)
“We kept the faith. Our faith was that God will make a way somehow. So bomb the churches, knock us down with fire hoses, beat us with billy clubs, tell us that we are the last, the lost and the least, but we shall overcome.”
Walter Fauntroy
Baptist pastor and former District of Columbia delegate to the U.S. Congress (RNS)