Dr. Richard Land at G92 South: “We need these people. Every economy in the world that’s growing has a growing population. Those who are concerned about population explosion are wrong. Human beings are not a drag on society, they are resources. Every human being is a resource, not a detriment to society. We need to look upon these workers as resources that want to come here and in many cases invest their lives here permanently and in other cases come here for a period of time, invest their lives, and then go back home with greatly expanded economic opportunities because of what they’ve been able to achieve while they’ve been working in the United States.”

Dr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, speaking at G92 South: 

It was from the Birmingham jail that Dr. King wrote his letter. And look at Birmingham today: you have a black mayor, you have a completely integrated city, you have a civil rights museum that I hope all of you will visit before you leave, that gives the plain unvarnished truth about segregation with a memorial to the little girls who were blown up in church. Look what Birmingham and Alabama and Samford have overcome. Don’t say it can’t be done. As Robert F. Kennedy once said, “Don’t look at things the way they are and say ‘why,’ but dream dreams that never were and say ‘why not?’”

Dr. Richard Land at G92 South: “I can’t answer any direct questions about the Alabama law. I will say this: that when the Congressman Sensenbrenner was trying to get an amendment to the immigration reform that ultimately failed in the Bush Administration, his amendment was that if you aided and abetted someone who was here in an undocumented status, you could be fined and you could be penalized and we opposed that amendment much to Mr. Sensenbrenner’s unhappiness. We opposed that amendment because we felt it was more like the fugitive slave laws of the 1850s, where people were penalized if they assisted fugitive slaves who were trying to reach their freedom. It’s not our business to ask people their immigration status before we extend aid and assistance to them. “