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“However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
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“When the Constitution was being written in Philadelphia in 1787, only two decades had passed since the horrifying execution in France of nineteen-year-old Jean-François Lefevre, Chevalier de la Barre, for blasphemy—a case, publicized by Voltaire, that shocked the educated world.”
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
“What Ingersoll, like Voltaire and Paine before him, understood was the indivisibility of human rights, and he understood this not in spite of but precisely because of his disbelief in a deity who had supposedly “designed” the order of nature.”
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
― The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
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