Birth Quote by Amy Waldman

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ...…

— Aasif Mandvi

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

— Todd Akin

I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife…

— Mahershala Ali

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked…

— Maajid Nawaz

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“I tried to picture to myself the mosque before the Christians laid their desecrating hands upon it.”

— W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

— Fred Allen

My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk -…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I was raised in the church.

— Kenny Rogers

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

— Leon Trotsky

I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I was a college student in 1989 when I participated in the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. I was one of the organizers.

— Li Lu