Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) on Learning and Class War(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 #9 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Class War
“Every kind of mechanism insists upon logic. The working people are reasoners -- their hands and heads are in partnership. They know a great deal more than the capitalists. It takes a thousand times the brain to make a locomotive that it does to run a store or a bank. Think of the intelligence in a steamship and in all the thousand machines and devices that are now working for the world. These working people read. They meet together -- they discuss. They are becoming more and more independent in thought. They do not believe all they hear. They may take their hats off their heads to the priests, but they keep their brains in their heads for themselves.”
Source: "Eight Hours Must Come," by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1877.
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