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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.