Civil rights Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's…

— Thomas Jefferson

“As George Marsden reminds us, “at the time of the American Revolution there was no distinctly ‘Christian’ line of political thought as opposed to…

— Steven K. Green

“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”

— Timothy Brook

“We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man’s right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly…

— James Madison

Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all Religious establishments,…

— James Madison

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that…

— Pat Robertson

“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.”

— Matt McCook

“If Christians today understood this distinction between the role of the private Christian citizen and the Christian in government, they might sound less like…

— Charles W. Colson

“At the time, most Europeans believed that religious conformity was necessary to safeguard civil order, and they questioned how such a diverse colony could…

— David S. Kidder

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly…

— James Madison

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

— George Jellinek

We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not…

— Anonymous