Purge

Often a rumor goes around that we expel lots of students and...this year we have lived up to that rumor.

Bob Jones, Jr. to the BJU Board of Trustees, 1965

Uncivility

Dr. Jones went on to say that he had explained to some of the members of the Board previously that BJU refused to sign the statement of compliance to the civil rights law, and he went on to say that by signing this statement we would not only have been agreeing to integrate but, most important of all, would also be in fact turning the reins of the property and the policies of the school over to the Government.

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1965

Don't Tell

I want to be free to write you what I have in mind, and be sure to have your secretary tear up any of my letters that have confidential matters in them after you have read them.

Bob Jones, Sr. to Governor Strom Thurmond, 1949

Praying to a White god

Our heavenly Father, bless our country. We thank Thee for our ancestors. We thank Thee for the good, Christian people -- white and black. We thank Thee for the ties that have bound these Christian white people and Christian colored people together throughout the years, and we thank Thee that white people who had a little more money helped them build their churches and stood by them and when they got sick, they helped them. No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South. Help these colored Christians not to get swept away by all the propaganda that is being put out now. Help us to see this thing and to understand God’s established order and to be one in Christ and to understand that God has fixed the boundaries of the nations so we would not have trouble and misunderstanding. Keep us by Thy power and use us for Thy glory, for Jesus’ sake. Amen.

Bob Jones, Sr., "Is Segregation Scriptural?"

A Little Short

If we happen to be a little short in the field of Ph.D.'s, we may be a little strong in the energy of the M.A.'s.

Bob Jones, Sr. to Ellison Smith, Division of Teacher Certification, DOE, South Carolina, 1952

Cabal

P. P. S I have an impression that what they are trying to do is to find some member of the Board that will ask for a meeting of the Board to investigate the setup at Bob Jones University. They know they can't have a meeting and that there is nothing to investigate, but they want to create the impression that there is something wrong. I do not think there is anybody on our regular Board they could get to do it, but I think on our Co-operating Board they might find one. I know one they are working on. But, of course, the Co-operating Board has no legal vote; and if a mebmer of the Co-operating Board asks for it, we will know what to say. They are trying to spring something just before school opens. I am pretty sure of that, but I do not think there is anything they can do.

Bob Jones, Sr. to Governor Strom Thurmond, 1953

Presbyterians

Those old-time, Psalm-singing Presbyterians when they are really brought up right have real iron in their character. My dealings with them throughout American have been very happy.

Bob Jones, Sr. to Governor Strom Thurmond, 1952