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He didn’t actually want to leave Reed; he just wanted to quit paying tuition and taking classes that didn’t interest him. Remarkably, Reed tolerated that. “He had a very inquiring mind that was enormously attractive,” said the dean of ...more
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Candace R.M. Gorham
“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

Sikivu Hutchinson
“The dominance of the faith-based industrial complex is a Catch-22 for communities of color that lack adequate social welfare services and educational and recreational spaces under an American capitalist system that essentially outsources these services to private organizations and tax-exempt nonprofits.”
Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

Candace R.M. Gorham
“Frederick Douglass noted, 'To be an infidel no more proves a man to be selfish, mean and wicked than to be evangelical proves him to be honest, just and humane.'"5”
Candace R.M. Gorham, The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--And Others Should Too

Zoje Stage
“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

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