“Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.”– Gary Locke Related Quotes “I’m religiously opposed to religion.”– Victor Hugo “No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.”– Abdul Kalam “It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we’ve had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.”— Taslima Nasrin