Famous quotes containing the words baptist, state and/or convention:
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.