Progressive Baptist Church's Website
TO PARENTS
"The foundation
for solving the drug crime, gangs, teenage pregnancy, welfare, and illiteracy
problems is not the church house, school house, courthouse, state house, or
White House, but YOUR HOUSE."
WAR ON POVERTY
"We have
spent $5 trillion for the "WAR ON POVERTY". Nevertheless, the poor are still
with us. We must come to the realization that we will never win the "WAR ON
POVERTY" until we win the "WAR ON IGNORANCE".
POLITICIANS
"Don't ever
VOTE FOR A POLITICIAN who wears a BELT and SUSPENDERS. If he can't trust his
PANTS to STAY UP on HIM, you probably can't trust HIM to STAND UP for
YOU."
BUSING
"The BUSING of our
children is the ULTIMATE FORM OF CHILD ABUSE."
LAY-A-WAY
"STEAL-A-WAY has
almost replaced LAY-A-WAY in our Department and other stores."
PAUL AND SILAS
"A very
fascinating coincident took place when I was a member of a church in California.
"Believe it or not, PAUL shot Silas."
GOVERNOR MIKE FOSTER
"In
our great country, if we look hard enough, we just might find his EQUAL as a
Governor, but not his SUPERIOR."
LIFE
"Half of LIFE is
IF."
SHOES AND SPOUSE
"Please
don't let anybody choose your SHOES or your SPOUSE. SHOES you must WEAR and
SPOUSE you must BEAR."
BLACKS
"With just a hop,
skip, and jump from the 21st Century, BLACKS are still RUNNING IN THE WRONG
DIRECTION."
YOUNG BOYS
"PULL UP YOUR
PANTS and stop showing us how much POSTERIOR you have and show us how much
INTERIOR you have."
WELFARE REFORM
"The
TAXPAYERS of this nation are saying to the WELFARE RECIPIENTS what the HEN said
to the ROOSTER, "I'm tired of LAYING EGGS while you do the
BOOGIE-WOOGIE."
SLAVERY AND SUCCESS
"If
Blacks are going to blame SLAVERY for our FAILURES, who are BLACKS going to give
credit to for the BLACKS that are SUCCESSES?"
FOR AND TO
"Everything
GOOD TO US is not GOOD FOR US."
A 350-pound woman walked up to
me at a local supermarket and said, "C. J., I would rather hear you speak than
to eat". I told my wife, Lillian, "if I was blind I would believe her."
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
"Well,
this is really a tough decision to make. My lovely wife Lillian, is a longtime
Democrat and I am a longtime Republican. Lillian finds so much wrong with BOB
DOLE'S "Bridge TO THE PAST" and I find so much wrong with PRESIDENT CLINTON'S
"Bridge TO THE FUTURE'. Well, I guess I will end up voting for the HERO and
Lillian will vote for the ZERO. The next time I see political analyst Jim
Leggett, I will ask him what he thinks of my analysis."
EDUCATION
"EDUCATION has
never made a FOOL out of anyone, EDUCATION only polished them so you could see
them better."
VILLAGE VS. FAMILY
"The
slogans of political parties that say, "IT TAKES A VILLAGE" vs. "IT TAKES A
FAMILY" to raise a child are both right. A VILLAGE without healthy FAMILIES is
empty, and FAMILIES without a caring VILLAGE is frightening."
PRAYER IN SCHOOL
"Sad, but
true, it is more acceptable in many of our nation's schools for students to
shoot dice hollering "SEVEN or ELEVEN" than to let them PRAY to their GOD IN
HEAVEN."
PUNISH AND REWARD
"Nobody
should be PUNISHED nor REWARDED because of the color of their skin."
GOD AND PEOPLE
"Some
people are more concerned about what PEOPLE think about them than they are of
what GOD knows about them."
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
"There
is no doubt about it, the "NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH" remains a strong deterrent to
crime, but at times, we need someone to "WATCH THE NEIGHBOR".
BLACKS AND WHITES
"BLACKS
that don't trust anybody that is WHITE must have never had a prescription filled
by a WHITE person, and WHITES that don't trust anybody BLACK must have never
eaten a meal cooked by a BLACK person."
COUSIN BOB
"COUSIN BOB,
one of my favorite cousins called me and told me he had a GRAND OPENING and
GRAND CLOSING of his little Grocery Store within a three week period. Naturally,
I was curious to know why. COUSIN BOB'S reply was, "Cousin C. J., I had one
cashier who was honest, but couldn't count and she gave my profit away and the
other one could count, but she stole my profit away."
ABORTION
"I'm opposed to
ABORTION! There is a law against murder. "At some point, we are going to have to
give some choice to an unborn human being. If there is no regard for the
sanctity of human life before it is born, there is no regard for the sanctity of
human life after it is born."
LOVE
"Have you ever
wondered whether or not you are IN LOVE or INSANE?"
TWO OR THREE
"Jesus
said, "where TWO or THREE gather together in my name, I will be in the midst". I
believe that, but it wouldn't hurt if those TWO or THREE would be any of these:
Roy O. Martin Jr., Joe D. Smith, Dr. John Deming, Robert Bolton or Carl
Guillory."
BLACKS WORST ENEMIES
"BLACKS WORST ENEMIES are not "WHITE" PEOPLE, but WHITE COCAINE, WHITE
SALT, WHITE SUGAR, and cigarette tobacco wrapped in WHITE PAPER."
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
"Dr. Martin Luther King had a DREAM but many of our Leaders have a
SCHEME."
BLACKS ANNUAL INCOME
"Sad,
but true, we have 30 million BLACK people in America with a combined ANNUAL
INCOME of $400 billion and we're still sitting in white-owned hotels talking
about WHITE RACISM that disturbs us."
BLACKS KILLING BLACKS
"If
BLACKS don't stop KILLING BLACKS, we are going to have over-crowded CEMETERIES
instead of over-crowded jails."
STREET NAMES
"We don't
need another STREET named after Dr. Martin Luther King, but what we really need
is some KINGS on the STREETS."
UNCLE BUBBER
"My dear old
UNCLE BUBBER put his hand on my shoulder when I was growing up as a youngster in
my hometown, Oakdale, Louisiana and said, "C.J., you can be anything you want to
be in this life. Take me for example; when I was a youngster about your age, I
never thought I would be a prophet, but today, I IS ONE, and I can spell
PROPHET: "P-R-O-F-I-T".
AMERICA
"AMERICA IS THE
GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. But AMERICA will not remain the GREATEST COUNTRY
if she cannot under all circumstances, hire the best qualified person regardless
of race or sex. Japan and other countries can."
SLAVERY AND EDUCATION
"We
have many Blacks that seriously believe that their SLAVE HISTORY have them
BEHIND IN SCHOOL, but their SLAVE HISTORY haven't kept them BEHIND in buying
Lincoln Continentals, Cadillacs, and other luxury cars. Misplaced priorities and
values are the roots of our problems."
FOOL AND MULE
"Only a FOOL
would bet on a MULE in the KENTUCKY DERBY."
ROTARY CLUB
"When I was
first invited to speak to our DOWNTOWN ROTARY CLUB, I fell on my knees and asked
GOD, "what can I say to all of the millionaires and millionairesses here?" GOD'S
reply to me was "tell them that you are broke".