“There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.”
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I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.