No Modern Inquisition

Edward M. Kennedy July/August 2010

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern Inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.

 

—The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, quoted in Great Quotations on Religious Freedom, compiled and edited by Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr (Prometheus Books, 2002).

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Article Author: Edward M. Kennedy