"Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."
— -- Ulysses S. Grant, address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875, from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
XP you are so on to the point
What I found disturbing at YearlyKos was the palpable fear of a rising brown and black leadership that would eclipse the blanquitos. They want us as long as we give up our vote to them and follow their lead. The minute we say, "sorry but we're our own jefes", they go batshit. "Where are the POC bloggers". Well, they should have really said what was on their mind : Where's the POC bloggers who will do as we say, as in give us your money, give us your vote and then shut up.