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«The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.»
Author: Anna Julia Cooper
(Teacher, Writer)
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Freedom
| Keywords:
birthright, cause of a, class, party, sect
«Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.»
Author: Edgar Quinet
(Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
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Discovery of, sect, stand still, wishing
«I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know»
«Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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Christians, ease, establish, established religion, exclusion, memorial, memorials, religions, remonstrance, sect, sects
«I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason»
«The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own; not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own; not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth; not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs; not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision; not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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conscientious, definite, fervent, impartial, ineradicable, inquiringly, inspire, instruction, inward, judging, notions, offered, outward, peculiar, quicken, quickening, quickens, regularities, regularity, religious instruction, religious sect, religious truth, sect, stamp, steadily, stir, stir up, strengthen, subjects, The Quickening
«My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; / Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.»
«The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
foggy, sect
«Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.»
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