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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it.

Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.