A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.
Susan JacobyThe forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.
Susan JacobyThe biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
Susan JacobyI feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.
Susan JacobyFeminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.
Susan Jacoby