Asma Jahangir Quotes

Religious and civil liberty are best protected by unbounded freedom of thought.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Freedom of the press and of religious opinion should be inviolate.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than on opinions in physics or geometry.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

It is hard to convince people that religious liberty is worth defending if they don’t think that religion is a good thing that deserves protection. The challenge for those who want to protect religious liberty in the United States, Europe, and other similar places is to convince people who are not religious that religious liberty is worth special protection.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God.

Unbelievers in this country have rights but they don’t have the right to veto everybody else.

The Liberty of Conscience and of the Press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United States

Roger Williams... successfully vindicated the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, and effected a moral and political revolution in all governments of the civilized world.

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.