Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.
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Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge
-- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
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The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
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The only interesting ideas are heresies
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Religion is induced insanity.
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