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A black warrant is issued as soon as the inmate’s mercy petition is rejected and is literally the message of death – indicating the time and date of when the hanging will be executed.
“Self-reliance is always liable to be interpreted as vanity. It is sad and miserable but there is no help.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
“The day we find a great number of men and women with this psychology who cannot devote themselves to anything else than the service of mankind and emancipation of the suffering humanity; that day shall inaugurate the era of liberty.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
“Yes: It was perhaps Upton Sinclair that wrote at some place that just make a man a believer in immortality and then rob him of all his riches, and possessions.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
“Belief' softens the hardships, even can make them pleasant. In God man can find very strong consolation and support. Without Him, the man has to depend upon himself. To stand upon one's own legs amid storms and hurricanes is not a child's play. At such testing moments, vanity, if any, evaporates, and man cannot dare to defy the general beliefs, if he does, then we must conclude that he has got certain other strength than mere vanity.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
“Criticism and independent thinking are the two indispensable qualities of a revolutionary”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
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