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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we…
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…
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That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a…
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We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not…
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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with…
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The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
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Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of…
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing…
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well…
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…
— Susan Jacoby
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the…
— Jim Hightower
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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget…
— Dennis Prager
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England…
— Pete Seeger
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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
— Carter G. Woodson
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Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed…
— Paul Hawken
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