Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) on Religious Powers and The State(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 #5 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Powers and The State
“The old idea was that the people were the wards of king and priest -- that their bodies belonged to one and their souls to the other.”
Source: "Centennial Oration," by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1876.
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