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Kennedy, Justice Anthony M.
"The First Amendment's Religion Clauses mean that religious beliefs and
religious expression are too precious to be either proscribed or prescribed
by the State. The design of the Constitution is that preservation and
transmission of religious beliefs and worship is a responsibility and a
choice committed to the private sphere, which itself is promised freedom
to pursue that mission. It must not be forgotten then, that while concern
must be given to define the protection granted to an objector or a dissenting
non-believer, these same Clauses exist to protect religion from government
interference. James Madison, the principal author of the Bill of Rights,
did not rest his opposition to a religious establishment on the sole ground
of its effect on the minority. A principal ground for his view was:
"[E]xperience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation."
[Justice Kennedy, opinion of the court in Lee vs. Weisman, 1991]

Kennedy, Flo
"It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses."

Kennedy, John F.
"I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice."

Knowles, F. M.
"Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate."

Konzelmann, Hans
"The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public."

Kuebler-Ross, Elizabeth
"For 15 hours a day, I sit in this same chair, totally dependent on someone else coming in here to make me a cup of tea. It's neither living nor dying. It's stuck in the middle. My only regret is that for 40 years I spoke of a good God who helps people, who knows what you need and how all you have to do is ask for it. Well, that's baloney. I want to tell the world that it's a bunch of bull. Don't believe a word of it."
[author of A Deathbed Confession and On Death and Dying, after a debilitating stroke; to Ken Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle on May 31; article in Skeptic Magazine, Vol.5 No.2 1997, page 28]

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