Roger Ross Williams Quotes

• Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Carácter, Pensamiento, Debería Tener

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Gay, Uganda, Guy

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

  Roger Ross Williams

  People, Stories, Filmmaker

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Eso es lo que más me atraía: crear historias cambiando y alterando la realidad.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Reality, Creating, Stories

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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• I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hero, Journey, Years

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There is much institutionalized racism in The Netherlands and the non-White population is just now beginning to fight for their rights.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Fighting, Rights, White

  Fuente: www.theskanner.com

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• While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Growing Up, Reality, Childhood

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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• It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Giving, Connections, Experts

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, Uganda, Addresses

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• They embrace them because they represent everything that America represents: money, power, and freedom. Why else would you see an old Ugandan woman respectfully listen to a 22-year-old white girl from America telling her what she should or shouldn't believe?

  Roger Ross Williams

  Girl, Believe, Years

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• La primera dama de Uganda es una devota evangélica y muy querida por la comunidad religiosa. En una conferencia evangélica en Argentina, un ministro dijo: "Mamá Janet nos ha dado las llaves de África". Lo ha hecho creando una nación que ha abrazado una forma dominionista de cristianismo que cree que los cristianos tienen el derecho otorgado por Dios de gobernar el mundo.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Believe, Creating

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• I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Mom, Kids, Cinema

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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• The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Editors, Important, Directors

  Fuente: www.rogerebert.com

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• American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

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  School, Uganda, Parliament

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• The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Kids, People, Musician

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• Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Uganda, Benefits, Type

  "Foiled in the United States, Anti-Gay Evangelicals Spread Hate in Africa". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2013.

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• After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.

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  Religious, Gay, Men

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• I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

  Roger Ross Williams

  Community, Southern, Style

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

  Roger Ross Williams

  Book, Saws, Well Known

  "Foiled in the United States, Anti-Gay Evangelicals Spread Hate in Africa". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Dog, Scum Of The Earth, Draining

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• I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

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  Uganda, World, Saws

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• Siempre comparo a los jóvenes misioneros con los chavales que ingenuamente se alistaron para ir a Irak a luchar contra el terrorismo. No son más que soldados de infantería en la guerra espiritual que Mike Bickle y Lou Engle libran contra lo que consideran pecado. Dirán que es la verdad bíblica, pero la Biblia dice muchas cosas, y no ves a nadie diciendo que la esclavitud está bien o que no debemos comer mariscos. ¿Por qué la fascinación por el sexo?

  Roger Ross Williams

  Spiritual, Sex, War

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• When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Prayer, Fall

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between a man and a woman will become illegal. He believes there will be a war. He believes it'll begin in schools and the Christian kids will rise up and slay the non-Christian kids. This was an on-camera interview!

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Spiritual, War

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