Pat Swindall quotes

“God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.”
-- Pat Swindall

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“Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.”
-- Pat Swindall

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“That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and striking sign of how far we are removed from the thinking of our colonial fathers.”
-- Pat Swindall

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“The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.”
-- Pat Swindall

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“The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.”
-- Pat Swindall

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“Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.”
-- Pat Swindall

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“Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,”

“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”

“Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...”

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

Source : John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104

“Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”

“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”

“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”

“I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.”

Source : "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.