Amendments Quote by William J. Brennan

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

— Ivan Illich

It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in…

— Anonymous

If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and…

— Sam Ervin

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern…

— Anonymous

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples…

— Tom L. Johnson

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

— F. LaGard Smith

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right…

— Norman Cousins

What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite…

— Laura Moser

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

— Charles Haynes

“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows of like…

— Timothy Shah