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Lauryn Seering

Lauryn Seering

September 23, 1980

Victoria Woodhull

“No legal ceremony — no election of the woman — no penalty for the perfidy of the man — no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for the poor woman who is turned adrift like the girl of the street, penniless, to sell herself on the best possible terms. This is Divine marriage, or Moses and the Bible lie; and this is Bible divorce — putting away!”

September 23, 1980

Ani DiFranco

“I'm an atheist. ... How unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.”

September 22, 1980

Eva Ingersoll

In 1911 Eva Ingersoll described the future woman who "will belong to no church, … will be fettered by no senseless formula or puerile dogma."
September 22, 1980

Parker Pillsbury

“The Methodist Discipline provides for 'separate Colored Conferences.' The Episcopal church shuts out some of its own most worthy ministers from clerical recognition, on account of their color. Nearly all denominations of religionists have either a written or unwritten law to the same effect. In Boston, even, there are Evangelical churches whose pews are positively forbidden by corporate mandate from being sold to any but 'respectable white persons.' Our incorporated cemeteries are often, if not always, deeded in the same manner. Even our humblest village grave yards generally have either a 'negro corner,' or refuse colored corpses altogether; and did our power extend to heaven or hell, we should have complexional salvation and colored damnation.”
 
September 21, 1980

James Watson

“I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.”

September 21, 1980

Etta Semple

“I never yet have seen the person who could withstand the doubt and unbelief that enter his mind when reading the Bible in a spirit of inquiry.”

September 21, 1980

H.G. Wells

"Indeed Christianity passes. Passes — it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits."

September 20, 1980

Robert Emmet

September 20, 1980

Upton Sinclair

“There are a score of great religions in the world ... and each is a mighty fortress of graft.”

September 19, 1980

Jean Baptiste Delambre

"The historian owes the dead nothing but the truth." 

September 19, 1980

Frances Farmer

“I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was  ... nothingness.”

September 12, 1980

Catherine Fahringer

“We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.”

September 17, 1980

Theodore Schroeder

“The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.”

September 16, 1980

Viscount Bolingbroke

September 14, 1980

Margaret Sanger

“No Gods — No Masters.”