“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”
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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.