Recognized Religious Minorities

Famous quotes containing the words recognized, religious and/or minorities:

“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)

“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)