Quotes about Separation
Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spokern quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother.
- Elie Wiesel
It is an admission of conflict and separation; these God creates and destroys, by His presence as much by His absence. All is possible with Him; nothing is possible without Him. But the opposite is equally true. Never forget what the ancient taught us: God exists in contradictions, too. He is the limit of all things, and He is what extends the limit.
- Elie Wiesel
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
- Alice Walker
Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.
- Diane Guerrero
Far as we aim our signs to reach, Far as we often make them reach, Across the soul-from-soul abyss, There is an aeon-limit set Beyond which they are doomed to miss. Two souls may be too widely met. That sad-with-distance river beach With mortal longing may beseech; It cannot speak as far as this.
- Robert Frost
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
- Ulysses S. Grant
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
- James Buchanan
Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
- John Adams
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
- Paul Tillich
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
- George Washington
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Thomas Jefferson