Quotes about Religious freedom
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
- Harry S. Truman
Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs
- Barack Obama
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
- Thomas Jefferson
America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.
- Hillary Clinton
Moreover, I cannot bear with laws for the interpretation of the word of God, since the word of God, which teaches liberty in all other things, ought not to be bound.
- Martin Luther
No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ
- Martin Luther
Gamaliel, at least as portrayed in Acts, advocated the policy of "live and let live." If people wanted to follow this man Jesus, they could do so.9 If this new movement was from God, it would prosper; if not, it would fall by its own weight. If the Romans wanted to run the world, so be it. Jews would study and practice the Torah by themselves. This, broadly speaking, had been the teaching of Hillel, a leading rabbi of the previous generation.
- NT Wright
Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.
- Travis Thrasher
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
- Billy Sunday
Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
- David Green
Is the Judeo-Christian heritage of America a reality or an interloper aimed at suppressing the secularism of the founders? Or, is it the other way around? Are today's secularists trying to recreate the faith of our founding father into the unbelief of a Deist in order to rid our nation of Washington's holy flame of faith?
- Peter Lillback
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
- Jimmy Carter