It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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“It means leaving behind your physical body. Leaving the cage of your physical flesh, breaking free of the chains, and letting pure… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
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If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)" (2012) Edgar Waltz: You may think I'm a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society… — Grimm Copy Share Image
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Let us respect and honor all who seek enlightenment through love and understanding; also, let us not disregard nor silence religion, the… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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“Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
America's bastions of free thought have become hubs of suppression. If you're on the left, riot in the streets without repercussion. But… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
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Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
“Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: “I wonder what my next thought is going to be.” Then… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
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“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
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