Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) on Learning and The Masses(published by RevoltSource) |
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19th-Century American Secularist, Freethinker, Union Civil War Colonel, Civil Rights Activist, and Famed Public Speaker
: Nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #4 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and The Masses
“They began to investigate and dig down to the bed-rock upon which, society must be founded, and when the got down there, forced there, too, by their oppressors, forced against their own prejudices and education, they found at the bottom of things, not lords, not nobles, not pulpits, not thrones, but humanity and the rights of men.”
Source: "Centennial Oration," by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1876.
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