There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I am a Catholic.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.