America Quote by Joseph Smith, Jr

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

— Jimmy Carter

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness…

— Phyllis McGinley

Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to…

— Heber J. Grant

Saints cannot exist without a community

— Stanley Hauerwas

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

— Dorothy Day

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

— Pope Francis

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

— Rollo May

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land,…

— Roger Casement

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

— Eric Sevareid