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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Dresden
Yates County
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.
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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
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