Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
Norman CousinsThe heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.
Norman CousinsThe real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
Norman CousinsAll men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.
Norman Cousins