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The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. -- John Henrik Clarke
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life. -- Stephen Kinzer
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society. -- Reza Aslan
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is. -- Dalai Lama
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others. -- Tony Campolo
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened. -- Reza Aslan
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. -- Preston Manning
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life. -- Gene Robinson
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. -- Lisa Randall
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. -- Emile Durkheim
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family. -- Steven Pinker
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. -- Studs Terkel
I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life, -- Gene Robinson
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. -- Irving Kristol
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. -- Margaret Cho
Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press. -- Fred Barnes
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. -- Nikki Haley
How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women. -- Dalia Mogahed
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community. -- Bill Kovach

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