Ralph E. Reed, Jr. Quotes

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must stand for something, or they will be unable to generate enthusiastic support from the volunteers needed to burn shoe leather and calories winning competitive elections.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.