“It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance. — Asa Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We're being told that America is a zero sum game - that the dreams of immigrants come at the expense of those… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
No, you cant deny women their basic rights and pretend its about your religious freedom. If you dont like birth control, dont… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they… — Don Nickles Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom, then, is the freedom of human will, reason, and conscience, of human souls and spirits, to explore and embrace whatever… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“the gay rights agenda must trump religious freedom concerns. To wit, Feldblum has authored the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which turns some… — Floyd G Brown Copy Share Image
“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“When the boys were little, I used to take them to the gleaming white Jefferson Memorial at the edge of the Tidal… — Khizr Khan Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“We desire more public space for secularism, space that would recognize secularism as a legitimate moral stance. But we simultaneously desire more… — Janet Jakobsen Copy Share Image
“The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is… — Rick Mayhew Copy Share Image
“Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“For a century and a half, people have wondered what factors - genetic and environmental - were especially significant in the evolution… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
“The fourth and final dimension of religious freedom in full is the right—both individually and as part of a larger religious community—to… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The most glorious triumphs of the Church have been won in times of persecution. The early church was persecuted for about three… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image