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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

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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
New York
Robert Ingersoll
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An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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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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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.
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One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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