Freedom Of Religion Quotes - Page 3

• I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, God, Christian

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.89, Ulysses Press

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• The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Religion, Constitution

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• The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Country, Organization

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• Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Political, Brutality

  "Romney Remarks for Cuban Independence Day". www.capitolhillcubans.com. May 18, 2012.

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• To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Christian, Religious, Firsts

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• The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Gun, Strong Arms

  "The writings of Thomas Jefferson".

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• I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about tolerance in the country today having to do with people on the left. And Indiana steps forward to protect the constitutional rights and privileges of freedom of religion for people of faith and families of faith in our state and this avalanche of intolerance that's been poured on our state is just outrageous.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

  Steve Daines

  America, Roles, World

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Age, Trials

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a fever pitch among leftists and homosexual activists, and they need to be stopped before they get carried away in their zeal and do bodily harm to someone. Once again we must remind them our Constitution says, 'freedom of religion' and not 'freedom from religion.'

  E.W. Jackson

  Christian, Class, Needs

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• I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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• We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

  Diana L. Eck

  Structure, Rudders, Sturdy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Church, Separation

  "Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38". The U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 4, 1985.

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• It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

  Rick Santorum

  Control Of Your Life, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

  Joseph Leon Blau

  Acceptance, Atheism, Maintenance

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

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Has Beens

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• Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.44

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• I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

  Kirk Cameron

  Believe, Hands, America

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

  Rick Perry

  Religious, Mean, Religion

  "Texas Gov. Perry signs 'Merry Christmas' bill into law". Speech at the State Capitol building in Austin, Texas, www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2013.

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• No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, England, Problem

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• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

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• While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

  Ibn Warraq

  Country, Islamic, Ideas

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.

  Pope Francis

  Freedom, Thinking, Rights

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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