Thomas JeffersonOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
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When Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry,” he was stating that the laws governing the country should not be tied to a particular religious view.
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