I Said I Didn't Want To Run

Democracy Is Not Meant To Be Efficient, It Is Meant To Be Fair.

I Protect My Right To Be A Catholic By Preserving Your Right To Believe As A Jew, A Protestant, Or Non-believer, Or As Anything Else You Choose. We Know That The Price Of Seeking To Force Our Beliefs On Others Is That They Might Some Day Force Theirs On Us.

Those Two Principles: We're Supposed To Love One Another And We're Supposed To Work Together To Make The Experience Better. That's All The Religion You Need, Really, To Make A Success Of This Planet.

The Problems Of A Retired Schoolteacher In Duluth Are Our Problems. That The Future Of The Child In Buffalo Is Our Future. That The Struggle Of A Disabled Man In Boston To Survive And Live Decently Is Our Struggle. That The Hunger Of A Woman In Little Rock Is Our Hunger. That The Failure Anywhere To Provide What Reasonably We Might To Avoid Pain Is Our Failure.

Way Down Deep The American People Are Afraid Of An Entangling Relationship Between Formal Religions - Or Whole Bodies Of Religious Belief - And Government. Apart From Constitutional Law And Religious Doctrine, There Is A Sense That Tells Us It's Wrong To Presume To Speak For God Or To Claim God's Sanction Of Our Particular Legislation And His Rejection Of All Other Positions. Most Of Us Are Offended When We See Religion Being Trivialized By Its Appearance In Political Throw-away Pamphlets.