“Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.” HumansHeartIndividualReligiousLibertyRightsIncludingHuman RightsIraqReligious FreedomIndividual Liberty Author:Jalal Talabani
“Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.” WorldWould BeReligiousFireRightsJudgingTownsChiefsWomens RightsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisReligious Freedom Author:Hillel Neuer
“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.” CharacterBodyPoliticalReligionChurchReligiousViewsStepsRightsMetsDemandSlaveryPropertyEducationalResistanceBitterOppositionWomens RightsEvery StepReligious FreedomTemperanceClergyKindredExponentsAnti SlaveryPolitical EqualityPersonal Rights Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.” PeopleWorldWayLifeHumansFoundReligiousFreedomRightsCitizensCircumstancesProtectTreatsBlessedHuman RightsAround The WorldHelplessPersecutionReligious FreedomDeprivation Author:Jimmy Carter
“While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.” PeopleCountryAmericaReligiousRightsEqualWelcomeNaiveEqual RightsReligious FreedomSnuff Author:Michael Huffington
“Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.” PeopleFirstsCountryGovernmentAmericaCertainBeliefGivenReligiousRolesRightsProtectSafeBuiltDiscriminationOur CountryPersecutionExileReligious FreedomInalienable RightsReligious Persecution Author:Marco Rubio
“Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.” HumansMeanDoeDifferentCultureSidesReligiousRightsModernEqualMajorityIslamWesternHuman RightsInferiorsEqual RightsReligious FreedomDifferent CulturesWestern Culture Author:Walter Kasper
“I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.” PeopleMenMeanDoeStatesEnoughWholeGovernmentEnjoyCommunityReligiousRightsProtectAccountsConstitutionFaultsRefusePunishmentSentimentsBroadsOfficersInterfereReligious FreedomReligious Rights Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” MenLifeSelfTruthHappinessCertainChangeFreedomLibertyRightsPoliticianEqualConstitutionIndependenceCreatorEqualityPursuitFourthAmerican DreamEvidentDeclaration4th Of JulyPursuit Of HappinessJulyFreedom LibertyReligious FreedomDeclaration Of IndependenceIndividual RightsFreedom Of ReligionRights And FreedomsRight To LifeAmerican PatrioticNatural RightsDeismInalienable RightsUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers DemocracyLiberty And JusticeAmerica FreedomJuly 4th 1776Price Of FreedomUsa PatrioticEquality For AllIndependence And FreedomAmerican FreedomHappy Independence Day Usa4th Of July InspirationalUnalienable RightsDeistLiberty And EqualityEquality Of ManFourth Of July InspirationalLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness4th Of July WishesConsent Of The GovernedUs Independence DayHappy 4th Of JulyHuman EqualityCreator God4th Of July MilitaryBest Things In Life Are FreePursuit Of JusticePopular SovereigntyRights In AmericaRights To LifeDomestic Tranquility Author:Thomas Jefferson
“When ISIS last year called for the destruction of the Yazidi people, President Obama said that would constitute genocide and he ordered U.S. forces to keep it from happening. Human rights advocates say Christians now face a similar threat Nina Shea directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.” PeopleYearsHumansSaidChristianLastsFacesForcePresidentReligiousRightsHappeningsDestructionThreatHuman RightsGenocidePresident ObamaLast YearIsisInstituteReligious FreedomNina Author:Tom Gjelten
“Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act.” ReligiousRightsJudgmentMajorityEnvironmentalCriticalVotingOur EnvironmentReligious FreedomRight To VoteAffirmingVoting Rights ActSandra Day O Connor Author:Patrick Leahy