Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) on Courts and Severity(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.)
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“I would like to see corporal punishment done away with in every home, in every school, in every asylum, reformatory, and prison. Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.”
Source: "What I Want For Christmas," by Robert Green Ingersoll, The Arena, Boston, December 1897.
"What I Want For Christmas," by Robert Green Ingersoll, The Arena, Boston, December 1897.
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