Maysoon Zayid Quotes

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.

Every adult is free to choose his own religion, but fanaticism has to be fought lest freedom perish.

All true democratic movements have been branded anti-religious.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

George W. Bush has merged church and state while trying to keep it apart in Iraq.

The evils which sapped the nation’s strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform

The religious people in Saudi Arabia are very powerful and don't allow anyone to step on their toes.

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good. … Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

In Israel, the ultra-Orthodox have formed a partisan bloc able to manipulate the political system even as it makes little effort to hide its contempt for secular democracy …. Israel is plagued by fundamentalism, but the country does not exist in a vacuum. Extremism is a disease that has infected its whole neighborhood, and the countries surrounding Israel suffer from far worse cases of it.

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.