I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Phil DonahueRecognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil DonahueA large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Phil DonahueScience may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?
Phil Donahue