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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

Edith Schreiber-Wicke
“Kindsein hat nichts mit dem Alter zu tun, sagte die Stimme. Schon gar nicht mit der Größe. Kindsein heißt staunen können.”
Edith Schreiber-Wicke, Amadeus Wunderkind

Tony Joseph
“if you were to identify a single person who embodies us Indians the best, who do you think it should be? Ideally, it should be a tribal woman because she is most likely to be carrying the deepest-rooted and widest-spread mtDNA lineage in India today, M2. In a genetic sense, she would represent all of our history, with very little left out. She shares the most with the largest number of Indians, no matter where in the social ladder they stand, what language they speak and which region they inhabit because we are all migrants, and we are all mixed.”
Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

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

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

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