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“Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.”

Heart Dream Church Destiny Presses Graves

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a human being which, because of ignorance and the lack of printing presses, had become exaggerated. He maintained that religions served their purpose; some people depended on them all their lives to make them honest. Others did not need to be so held in line. But subjection to any church was a reflection on strength and character. You should be able to get from yourself what you had to go go church for.”

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

“the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.”

Church Watches Band Presses Critics Rounds Features Articles Slips Preacher Defects Irresponsible Clergy Talkers Chapel

Book:The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.”

Literature Church Millions College Presses Exclusive Printing

Author:Wendell Phillips

“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.”

Long Church Opinion Struggle Presses Fierce Martyr Struggle For Freedom

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.”

States Lying Easy Church Authority Roots Presses Worried Officials Censorship Printing Copyright Printing Press Scribes

Author:Stephan Kinsella