"...the [American] churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean that the churches that have absolute congregational control. Now, in the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said 'If you could only get rid of the Bishop then you'd be a true Christian.' Well, you might get rid of the Bishop and get the local Ku Klux Klan leader."

--Reinhold Niebuhr in this 1958 TV interview with Mike Wallace