Racist Quotes from Jehovah's Witnesses and LDS

One of the most frequently cited quotes comes from early Watchtower publications regarding the "curse of Canaan":
  • On Black People as Servants (1902): "It is generally believed that the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race... They have been and are a race of servants... There is no servant in the world as good as a good Colored servant, and the joy that he gets from rendering faithful service is one of the purest joys there is in the world".
  • On "White Race" Qualities: Early literature sometimes referred to the "white race" as having "superior qualities" compared to others.
Lds Quotes:

Brigham Young (1852): In an address to the Utah Territorial Legislature, Young stated: ​"Any man having one drop of the seed of [Cain] in him cannot hold the priesthood... If we should suffer them to come into the house of God and be ordained, the whole of us would be cursed."
​"Any man having one drop of the seed of [Cain] in him cannot hold the priesthood... If we should suffer them to come into the house of God and be ordained, the whole of us would be cursed."

• ​Mark E. Petersen (1954): In a speech at Brigham Young University, Elder Petersen discussed segregation and the "pre-mortal life," suggesting that skin color was a result of faithfulness in heaven: ​"If that Negro is faithful in all things, he can be a celestial servant, but he can never be a celestial son... he can’t go where God is."
​"If that Negro is faithful in all things, he can be a celestial servant, but he can never be a celestial son... he can’t go where God is."

• ​The First Presidency (1949): An official statement reaffirmed the ban as a "direct commandment from the Lord," rather than a matter of policy: ​"The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the premortal state has a determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality."
​"The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the premortal state has a determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality."

• ​2 Nephi 5:21 (Book of Mormon): "And he had caused the cursing to come upon them... wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."
• ​3 Nephi 2:15 (Book of Mormon): Describing a group of Lamanites who converted: "And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites."
• ​Abraham 1:21-27 (Pearl of Great Price): This text describes Pharaoh, a descendant of Ham and Canaan, being of "that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood." This was the primary scriptural "proof" used for over a century to justify the ban on Black members.
​2. Historical Quotes from Church Presidents
​These statements were often delivered as "doctrine" at the time, though the modern Church now classifies them as personal opinions or products of their era.

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so."
1863 Discourse
John Taylor
Explained that the "Negro race" survived the Flood so that "the devil might have a representative upon the earth."
1881 Journal of Discourses
George Albert Smith
Reaffirmed in a 1947 letter that the priesthood ban was "not a matter of the declaration of a policy but of direct commandment from the Lord."
Letter to Dr. Lowry Nelson
Joseph Fielding Smith
"There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here."



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