"Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction."
"It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity."
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Source: Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press
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