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“Submission demands obedience and unquestioning loyalty, which creates a breeding ground for abuse of power.”
― Candace R.M. Gorham, The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--And Others Should Too

“What people do not realize—including most in the black community—is that the abolitionist movement was largely initiated and supported by freethinkers. Sojourner Truth, for example, was relatively more freethinking than many know. Frederick Douglass was an atheist who was very vocal about his disdain for religion:”
― Candace R.M. Gorham, The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--And Others Should Too

“D. Frederick Sparks”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“Sociopaths are liars who manipulate toward a desired outcome, but they tend not be as callous as psychopaths. Psychopathy can be genetic, the structure of the brain, and it can include chemical and physical components—a lesion on a particular part of the brain, not unlike the sociopath—but it’s marked by more-aggressive, remorseless traits: where a sociopath might manipulate, the psychopath attacks”
― Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth