Sentences with phrase «build walls of separation»

-- a story about how adults build walls of separation, that children can easily bring down through their love and innocence — «for even the toughest walls shall not stand strong when faced with a child's innocence.»
«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»
Thomas Jefferson wrote, «I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.»
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

Not exact matches

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office.
Even the hallowed phrase that the First Amendment built «a wall of separation between church and state» saw the light of day not in a court ruling or piece of legislation, but in a letter from President Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association in 1802.
His letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was a short note of courtesy, written 14 years after the amendments were passed by Congress... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build the «wall of separation» that was constitutionalized in Everson.
This figure derives from an earlier painting, Wall Jumpers (2002), the source of which was a media image showing Palestinians scrambling over the separation barrier built by Israel in the occupied territories.
At a time when there have been reports of married couples considering divorces and separation because one partner wants to build the wall and one wants to deal in, how does one date and debate politics?
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