Today's American Minute

Sanctity of Life "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion"-Mother Teresa - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 21, 2024

President Reagan addressed the March for Life, January 22, 1985: “I’m convinced, as I know you are, that our response to the 12th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton must be to rededicate ourselves to ending the terrible national tragedy of abortion.”

Dr. David Livingstone, Scottish Missionary to the Congo - Arab Muslim slave trade is "a monster brooding over Africa" - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 17, 2024 • Dr. David Livingstone • Scottish Missionary to the Congo - Arab Muslim slave trade is "a monster brooding over Africa"

Describing the Muslim slave trade as "a monster brooding over Africa," Livingstone once walked 120 miles near Lake Nyasa without seeing a single human being, as Arab slave traders had so depopulated the area.

Plato on How Democracies Collapse: "The manner of life is that of democrats ... Every man does what is right in his own eyes" - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 16, 2024

Ben Franklin "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom"

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and those who inspired non-violent resistance - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 14, 2024 • Jr. • Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church & Ebenezer Baptist Church; and the Civil Rights Movement • Rev. Martin Luther King

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., reflected on concept in Romans 13 in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963: "One may well ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust ... How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God."

Booker T. Washington "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else" - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 12, 2024 • Booker T. Washington "If you want to lift yourself up • lift up someone else"

Secretary of the Navy John D. Long wrote during the Spanish-American War, October 9, 1898: "Booker T. Washington is, perhaps, the finest orator in the country and these troops the best fighting soldiers of the war."