Slavery Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

10 Slavery quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ingersoll’s secular voice cuts straight to the core of the slave debate, using logic and moral clarity. These ten lines capture his fierce advocacy for human dignity in a compact form.

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There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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All religion is slavery.

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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead…

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Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved…

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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades…

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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one…

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If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed…

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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