54 Quotes by Michael Newdow

Think of it as an Olympic event or a ball game: you practice first.

I tried out different openings, but most of them got torn to shreds. Some of them sounded great, then bombed big-time,

That is an actual, concrete, discrete, particularized, individualized harm to me, which gives me standing.

It was never concluded and violated the Constitution, ... I think that is wrong - I'm happy that the idea is getting recognized and that a judge recognized that.

I have the right to be able to have my child in public school without her being indoctrinated with religious belief, ... This is supposed to be a public school and supposed to be religion-free.

because I am an atheist and this offends me.

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.

People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.