Aclu Quotes

#1. Fighting to scale back a reactionary initiative is one thing. Supporting the scaled back version, though, is a betrayal when the scaled back version does exactly the same thing just not as much. This sort of thing is a strategy for the ACLU.

Anonymous

#2. Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents - not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers' interests.

Jeff Sessions

#3. The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

Nat Hentoff

#4. The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#5. The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

F. LaGard Smith

#6. The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

Russell Kirk

#7. Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas!

Donald Wildmon

#8. An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?

Gary DeMar

#9. Jerry Falwell says, on Pat Robertson's program, that the reason we got attacked on 9/11 is that we were accommodating the ACLU and abortion and homosexuals and feminists in America, so God smacked us down.

John Shelby Spong

#10. As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he's gonna rule the world with a rod of iron. That means he's gonna make the ACLU do what he wants them to. That means you're not gonna have to ask if you can pray in public school. We will live by the law of God and no other law.

John Hagee

#11. I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Debbie Harry

#12. The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.

Jerry Falwell

#13. Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

Craig Bruce

#14. ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Newt Gingrich

#15. To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

William Anthony Donohue

#16. If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

F. LaGard Smith

#17. Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

Janeane Garofalo

#18. The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.

William Anthony Donohue

#19. The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.

F. LaGard Smith

#20. The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

Peter T. King

#21. The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.

William Anthony Donohue

#22. The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#23. Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

William Anthony Donohue

#24. I want to start saying bad words all the time!

Chelsea Handler

#25. The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

Thomas Carlyle

#26. I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

Oprah Winfrey

#27. A good swimming pool could do that - make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.

Emma Straub

#28. What I've learned is that the audience is constantly rotating. Just because it feels like I've said it, there are millions and millions of people that have still never heard of it.

Suze Orman

#29. Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.

Sri Chinmoy