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  • God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them. -- Emanuel Cleaver
  • The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. -- B. R. Ambedkar
  • All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. -- Frank Herbert
  • However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. -- Hans Kung
  • If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones. -- Paul Bloom
  • The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles. -- Jim Ryun
  • In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term. -- Daniel Pipes
  • In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. -- Kofi Annan
  • Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. -- Robert Reich
  • Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. -- Thomas Bulfinch
  • Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black. -- Frans de Waal
  • In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. -- George J. Mitchell
  • The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. -- Haile Selassie
  • My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. -- Chesty Puller
  • A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. -- Emile Durkheim
  • Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity. -- Rashi
  • The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion -- George Washington
  • The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. -- James Buchanan
  • The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. -- John Adams
  • No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution. -- James Madison
  • In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one. -- Susan Sontag
  • The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology. -- Ralph Bunche
  • I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity. -- Barack Obama
  • The United States of America...has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Muslims. -- John Adams
  • The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. -- Philip Schaff
  • Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. -- Thomas Szasz
  • politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses. -- Roseanne Barr
  • Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law. -- Lori Lipman Brown
  • Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution. -- Jerry A. Coyne
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