John Wooden Quotes

I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.

No Australian of any faith should be fired for practising their religion.

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

I’m a Christian Citizen exercising my Constitutional Rights

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

The phrase 'religious liberty' has become an overused talisman. Most of the invocations lately have nothing to do with actual infringements of free exercise [of religion]. They're about political and cultural dissent from gay rights.

I am not asking to be Governor of Illinois ... I have in my composition that which I have declared to the world as my views upon religion. My position I would not, under any circumstances, not even for my life, seem to renounce. I would rather refuse to be President of the United States than to do so. My religious belief is my own. It belongs to me, not to the State of Illinois. I would not smother one sentiment of my heart to be the Emperor of the round world.