Questions & Answers
Questions 425 (COD Page 1178)
How can we find the will of the Lord? Our–our home to...Should we move our home to Jeffersonville, Indiana? Can a person be a Christian and dislike a colored people? Does God not want them to be treated like us, ’cause they are dark in color? Would you...What do you suggest in this? Do you believe in integration or segregation?
161 I believe in integration. I believe that a man...No matter what his color is or who he is, he’s a man just like I am. That’s exactly. And I believe, if they’d just leave those colored people alone, and them communists didn’t get out there and inspire them...
162 Now, they wanted...Now, the real genuine colored people, there’s a genuine bunch of borned again, godly saints in them people. Yes, indeedy. Just because my skin is white and theirs dark, that don’t mean one thing to me. He’s my brother if he’s in Christ.
163 That’s why I different with the Afrikaans message; they didn’t even believe those people had a soul. That’s what got me disliked there. I said, “That man’s a man as same as I am. He’s got the rights to the same privilege that I have. His skin don’t mean no difference to me, or no other man that’s borned again of the Spirit of God.”
165 But I said, “If they’d let those colored people alone, they never would’ve been this inspired.” And I’ll say it from this pulpit...We have lots of colored people that come here. (I don’t think there’s any here tonight.) But we have lots of colored people that come here to this church. Brother, they’re as welcome as anybody else is. They’re my brother and sister.
165 And some of the finest people I ever met in my life is some of them colored people. Then there’s some of them that’s renegades, just exactly like the white people, or the yellow people, or the brown people. Yes, indeedy.
166 Now, I don’t believe in mixing marriages. I believe that a white man should not marry a colored girl, or a colored girl marry a white man, or a yellow marry a colored, or a white, or a...I believe the brown, black, white, and races of people are like a flower garden of God, and I do not believe they should be crossed up. I believe that’s the way God made them, and I believe that’s the way they should remain.
167 What...It fools me that I seen some real pretty colored girl, intelligent, nice looking kid, just as pretty as any woman you’d want to see...What does she want to marry a white man and have mulatto children? What would an intelligent colored girl want with such a thing as that? Is because that something...that communist...And how would a–a fine...a–a–a colored man want to marry a white woman and have mulatto children?
168 I don’t believe I...I believe you should stay just what we are. We–we’re servants of Christ. And God made me...If He made me, my color black, I’d be happy to be a black man for God. If He made me yellow, I’d be a happy yellow man for Christ. If He made me white, I’d...?...happy white man for Christ. If He made me brown, or red, an Indian, whatever it is, I’d stay my same color. That would be me. I want to be like my Maker made me.
169 Down there that day in Shreveport when that uprise come, and them...and there was all them young colored inspired out there, communistic...
170 I’ve told you here in this pulpit, Martin Luther King is the greatest indebtment the colored people’s ever had. Right. That man’s going to lead a thousands of them to a slaughter (that’s right), inspired by communism.
171 Let me prove my point. I said that about two years ago. Look what’s happening right now. They said they were fighting for integration, and when the law give them integration...And to you people that don’t believe in integration, be ashamed of you. Our nation permits integration, and we should do what the big boss says do. That’s exactly right. And now, you say...Not to come in places, and so forth like that, or shopping, or set in the back of the bus, and so forth, no, sir! The law says they’re just the same as we are, so we’re the same as they are; so let’s act that way. Let’s be that way. And that’s exactly what all really true borned again people believe. And now, I believe that’s in their heart.
172 I never had such a feeling for people as I have them poor people in Africa, the way they were treated. And I do not believe in that stuff. I’m a southerner; I was borned across the river yonder, but I’m like Abraham Lincoln; I come here, because I believe that man were born equal. That’s right. And I do not believe in separating people and things like that, when them people...baptized with the Holy Ghost and so forth.
173 But look, it isn’t them real genuine borned again Christian colored people that’s causing all of this trouble. You want to condemn them for that, what about some of our renegade white kids? See? Now, what sauce for the goose is for the gander. Why, our white kids cause twice as much trouble as they have. That’s exactly right. Where’s it at? In our colleges and things like that. Some of our higher educated people is causing those things. See?
174 Well, what is it? Now, to show you that it’s communism and not them colored people, that’s how communism has always come in to take over. They do that in every nation. That’s how they do it, getting you fighting amongst one another, revolution, then they take in without a shot. They don’t want to blow this country up; they want it. They can wormweed it in. And now, they seen a case of doing that, and know what the old revolution was, and thought they’d start another revolution.
175 To prove my point is clear, after they have integration (they have it now, legally, lawfully), they’re causing more trouble now than they did at the first place. See? It shows that it is communism and not them precious souls that’s borned of the Spirit of God.