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“In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.”

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Author:Keith O'Brien

“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.”

“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.”

Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works

“Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.”

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Author:Isaac Bonewits

“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

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Author:Brock Chisholm

“My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.”

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Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.”

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Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...

“Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.”

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Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.”

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Author:Ronald H. Nash

“The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.”

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Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.”

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Book:The things that matter most

Source: The things that matter most

“the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?”

“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.”

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Author:Isaac Hayes