Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.