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"Traditional religions are not primarily for the individual, but for his community of which he is an inseparable part."

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"Religion permeates into all the departments of life so fully that it is not easy or possible always to isolate it."

"Wherever the African is, there is his religion."

"I am because we are; and since we are, therefore I am."

"To be human is to belong to the whole community, and to do so involves participating in the beliefs, ceremonies, rituals and festivals of that community."

"Africans are notoriously religious."

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

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.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

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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