"It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity."

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Source : Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

Hubert Harrison

#Blessing Quotes #Class Quotes #Dubious Quotes

“The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.”
“My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.”

Source : Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.214, David R. Godine Publisher
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.
“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”
“The Lord will provide.”
“Sound will be the medicine of the future.”
“Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.”

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