Ralph E. Reed, Jr. Quotes

• I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Country, Believe

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• I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Night, Bags, Body

  "In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2006.

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• What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Sunday

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• What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Jesus, Children, Writing

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• It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  War, Moving, Army

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• We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Religious, Party, Scary

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• With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Conservative, Century, 20th Century

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• The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, America

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• You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  People, Internet, Free Speech

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• Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Reading

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• People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, School

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• Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Men, Law, People

  "June 30: Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Tim Huelskamp, Ralph Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Jim DeMint, Rachel Maddow, Pete Williams". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Freedom Of Religion

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• An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Chicago

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• The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Tolerance

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• Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Borders

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• Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Squares

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• The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must stand for something, or they will be unable to generate enthusiastic support from the volunteers needed to burn shoe leather and calories winning competitive elections.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Party, Winning, Shoes

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• The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Law

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• Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Political

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• Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Classroom

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• Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Teacher, Religious

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