Freedom Singer and civil rights icon Bernice Johnson Reagon:
If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.
Relevant, I think, to the kerfuffle over evolution/religion accomodationism.
Also relevant to note that most scientists are not incompatibilists of the Dawkins/Coyne/Myers school.
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