“We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)

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American protestant theologian 1892–1971

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