Atheism Quote by Elbert Hubbard

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

All religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship:…

— Michael Emerson

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to…

— William Robertson Smith

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be…

— Elbert Hubbard

Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess…

— Richard Henry Lee

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself…

— Benjamin E. Mays

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught…

— Joseph Joubert

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right…

— Lily Montagu

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made…

— Theodore Dreiser

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner