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"No Gods, No Masters." - masthead motto of Sanger's newsletter, The Woman Rebel
"Cannibals at least do not hide behind the sickening smirk of the Church.... Their tastes are not so fastidious, so refined, so Christian, as those of our great American coal operators.... Remember the men and women and children who were sacrificed in order that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., might continue his noble career of charity and philanthropy as a supporter of the Christian faith...." - from 1993 Atheist Desk Calendar by Carole Gray
(Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginia's largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail. This is a chapter from his 1996 book, 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt, Prometheus Books, all rights reserved.)
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