Recognized Religious Minorities

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

    What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.
    Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)