鈥淔or many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an 鈥榓ffair.鈥 鈥 And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?鈥
鈥 Address at Columbia University (1991)