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People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.
Barack Obamaborn 1961A New Beginning (June 2009)
- Freedom
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Keynote speech: Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America conference—Washington, D.C., June 2006.
- America
The Man of Galilee, the Carpenter, the workingman who became the revolutionary agitator of his day soon found himself to be an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the ruling knaves and they had him crucified.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
- Christianity
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Christopher Columbus1451–1506Letter to the Sovereigns (1498)
- Christianity
- Money
I’d like to imagine I won’t end up in hell, but I think I’ve done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
Dave Grohlborn 1969Maxim Magazine (January 2008)
- Comedy
Norwegians believe in God, Allah, the Universe and nothing.
Harald V1937–2026Garden party in the Palace Park: welcoming speech (September 1, 2016)
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith.
Bhagat Singh1907–1931Why I am an atheist? (1930)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.
Giorgia Meloniborn 1977Giorgia Meloni: The long climb to Italy’s political summit Euro News (October 22, 2022).
- Christianity
- Women
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 5:3 (NIV)In context
- Christianity
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
- Liberty
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 16:24 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
Adolf Hitler1889–1945Speer, Albert (1997). Inside the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 96.
- Christianity
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937Letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930)
- Anti-Religion
Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour.
Charles IIIborn 1948Speech on Islam and the West to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (27 October 1993)
- History
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart
- Science