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"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."
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"There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He's got you covered."

"Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height."

"Inevitably, mistakes are going to happen, sin is going to win a round or two in the battle of life, but there is always, always, always a way back because Jesus Christ has our backs."

"The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money."

"A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."

"One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers."
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"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."


"My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam."


"Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself."


"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."


"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse."


"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government."


"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."


"Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants."
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