“We believe God calls us to live in peace—and to oppose all those who would use his name to justify violence and murder.”
George W. Bush
U.S. president, addressing a U.N. conference (RNS)
“God has no one except you. God says: ‘Help me … make this world the kind of world I intended for it to be. Help me. Help me to make this a world that is more compassionate … where there will be no poverty; where my children won’t spend as much as they do on weapons of destruction.’”
Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Prize winner and archbishop emeritus of the Anglican Church of South Africa (RNS)
“The foundation for this unequal treatment (of the sexes) is within the major religions, which are almost impervious to either criticism or change.”
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Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. president, speaking at Mercer University about how discrimination against women is a violation of basic human rights (ABP)
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