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“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”

Atheism Teaching Strength Weakness Social Justice Positive Atheism Sympathy Condolence Message

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."”

People Humans Peace Doubt Rights Atheism Diversity Social Justice Human Rights Positive Atheism No Doubt Application Ubuntu Reservations

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.”

Has Beens Done Age Culture Religious Diversity Social Justice Atheist Positive Atheism Command Persecution Religious Persecution

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.”

Men Years Stills Earth Culture Found Justice Break Atheism Promise Diversity Social Justice Slave Bounds Rounds Positive Atheism Command Chains Prize Rescue Oppressors

Author:John Quincy Adams

“People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.”

People Wells Culture Justice Psychology Atheism Awareness Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Positive Atheism Ashamed Eliminating Preconceptions

Book:The Nature of Prejudice

Source: The Nature of Prejudice

“We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.”

Thinking Real Country America Certain Culture Black Justice Atheism Diversity Social Justice Positive Atheism Remarkable Kansas Durham Midwesterners

Author:Maya Angelou

“The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.”

Mind Body Culture Justice Atheism Diversity Racism Social Justice Positive Atheism Entering Floating Plague Lifelong Insidious Microbes Airborne

Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.”

“I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.”

Long Culture Church Justice Atheism Diversity Social Justice Positive Atheism Interfere Objections

Author:Brooks Atkinson

“Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.”

Real Justice Atheism Economic Diversity Social Justice Positive Atheism Economic Freedom Real Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.”

Humans Justice Atheism Diversity Social Justice Errors Available Positive Atheism Persistence Devices Conformist Human Intelligence

Author:Robert M. Lindner

“To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.”

Men Persons Justice Cases Atheism Crime Diversity Social Justice Committed Positive Atheism Foolish Commit Doctrine Wicked Persecution

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.”

Ideas Justice Moral Atheism Social Justice Slave Injustice Positive Atheism No Idea Passivity

Author:Lucretia Mott