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Richard Holloway
“As we have seen so often in this book, religion may begin with mystical experiences but it always leads to politics. It starts with the voice heard by the prophets who are its chosen instruments. And what they hear always leads to actions that affect the way people live: with politics. Sometimes the politics are bad. People are persecuted for following the wrong faith or for listening to the wrong voice. Or they are forced to embrace the message announced by the latest hot prophet. So the history of religion becomes a study in different forms of oppression. But sometimes the politics are good. They are about liberation, not oppression. We saw good politics in the stand the Pennsylvanian Quakers made against slavery in 1688. And in the African American Church today the politics of Christianity are still about liberation. The tactics of Moses and the promises of Jesus are used to make the world a better place. Religion is no longer used as an opiate to dull the pain of injustice and inequality but as a stimulant to overcome it. That’s what keeps many people in the religion game.”
Richard Holloway, A Little History of Religion

Rosa Luxemburg
“I feel at home in the entire world, wherever
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
Rosa Luxemburg, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

“ഇന്നലെ ചെയ്തോരബദ്ധം മൂഢർക്കിന്നത്തെയാചാരമാകാം,
നാളത്തെ ശാസ്ത്രമതാകാം,
അതിൽ മൂളായ്ക സമ്മതം രാജൻ”
Kumaranasan, Chandalabhikshuki

Elizabeth  Smart
“Parents' imaginations build frameworks out of their own hopes and regrets into which children seldom grow, but instead, contrary as trees, lean sideways out of the architecture, blown by a fatal wind their parents never envisaged.”
Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Richard Holloway
“The most revolutionary change that hit the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries was the liberation of women. The Bible and the Qur’an came from societies controlled by men. No surprise there. That’s how the world everywhere was run until fairly recently. And there is something worth noting before we go deeper into the issue. History shows that the men in charge never volunteer to give up their privileges. They don’t wake up one day and say, ‘I’ve suddenly realised that the way I control and dominate others is wrong. I must change my ways. So I’ll share my power with them. I’ll give them the vote!’ That’s never how it works. History shows that power always has to be wrested from those who have it. The suffragettes who fought for the vote or suffrage for women learned that lesson. Men didn’t volunteer to give women the vote. Women had to fight them for it.”
Richard Holloway, A Little History of Religion

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