"Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible……" — Amy Waldman
"Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't."
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33 Quotes by Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman has 33 quotes on this site.
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Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
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Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
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In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
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The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like…
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Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become…
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More Abortion Quotes
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes…
— Tony Blair
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
— Julie Burchill
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies…
— Edmund Burke
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
— Barbara Bush
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
— Barbara Bush
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I do not believe abortion should be legal.
— Herman Cain
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Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again…
— Tony Campolo
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
— Tony Campolo
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