Americans/religion

Famous quotes containing the words americans and/or religion:

    “Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is
    what Americans are and that is what always upsets the
    foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly
    how can they be so suspicious and they are so
    suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just
    are and that certainly has something to do with their
    having tucked their capital, their capitals away.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.”
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)