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→Beliefs: "I've championed.. the union man... but I'm dead against the radical."
He was inclusive toward "Negroes" (African-Americans), welcoming them to his services. In 1918 he supported "industrial equality," stating that "If the Negro is good enough to fight in the trenches and to buy Liberty bonds, his girl is good enough to work alongside any white girl in the munitions factories."<ref>[http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=2568 Billy Sunday for Industrial Equality for Negro Citizens], Ohio History Society</ref>
He was inclusive toward "Negroes" (African-Americans), welcoming them to his services. In 1918 he supported "industrial equality," stating that "If the Negro is good enough to fight in the trenches and to buy Liberty bonds, his girl is good enough to work alongside any white girl in the munitions factories."<ref>[http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=2568 Billy Sunday for Industrial Equality for Negro Citizens], Ohio History Society</ref>
He favored women's right to vote, labor unions, and sex education:<ref name=ames>[http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/residents_sunday.htm Famous Ames Residents: Billy Sunday], Ames Historical Society</ref> ("Prudery is no more a sign of virtue than a wig is of hair").
He favored women's right to vote. He favored sex education:<ref name=ames>[http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/residents_sunday.htm Famous Ames Residents: Billy Sunday], Ames Historical Society</ref> ("Prudery is no more a sign of virtue than a wig is of hair").
He favored labor unions, but within limits: "It would be the greatest calamity of history if [[Eugene V. Debs]] ever became president of the United States.... hell would hold a jubilee and heaven would hang a crepe on her door.... I have championed the cause of the union man all my life, but I'm dead against the radical in whatever form he may appear."<ref>Karsner, David (1922), ''Talks with Debs in Terre Haute,'' New York Call; [http://books.google.com/books?id=m0-D2Q74BxwC&pg=PA57&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA56,M1 p. 57]</ref>
==Converts and financial success==
==Converts and financial success==