Perhaps the most poignant comment from President Kimball on the revelation came during the aforementioned interview given five years after the revelation was received, when he humbly allowed that prior to the receipt of the revelation he personally accepted the fact that blacks should not have the priesthood:

I had a great deal to fight, of course, myself largely, because I had grown up with the thought that Negroes should not have the priesthood and I was prepared to go all the rest of my life till my death and defend it as it was. But this revelation and assurance came to me so clearly that there was no question about it.

Given the courage, faith and testimony shown by Spencer W. Kimball regarding the question of the LDS Church's restrictive practices towards blacks, along with the other things I have felt in my heart on the issue, my spirit will not allow me to believe any other position but that the Church's priesthood ban was both instituted and lifted by the Lord. Thus testified Elder and President Kimball as one of the Lord's anointed. The substance of his testimony of this matter cannot be verified historically; yet, the Spirit has confirmed to me, and for me, beyond doubt, the truthfulness of what President Kimball has stated.