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Religious Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling…
- The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for…
- Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
- Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
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