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Secularism comes in many shades and varieties, but it has never manifested—not even here in the United States—in the manner of a total repudiation of religion.

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Working with religious actors on all aspects of human rights carries both challenges and opportunities.

This generation is growing up at a time when even what it is to be a man or a woman is being radically redefined.

The world of religion is vast and difficult for us to quantify and categorize into neatly distinct entities.

I see hope and change in attitudes and practices through the voice of women and men of faith as they stand in solidarity with one another.

You don’t really become politicized by a certain event; you grow up politicized.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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