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From the day that the light of science began to break upon the mind of men, superstition has attempted to place a black curtain of fear between man’s mind and the light.

— Rose Pastor Stokes Speech (1916)

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Science comes to regulate life and prevent needles death. But, say the bigots, these conditions exist by God’s will and must therefore be borne in a meek and humble spirit.

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The battle between Science and Superstition is by no means over, but for Science it has been and continues to be a winning fight.

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Capitalist society has not succeeded in making me bitter, but it has succeeded in making me unafraid.

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Don’t look at the one who has somehow chanced to survive but look down into the pit where the millions struggle weakly, and where millions have succumbed.

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Be the penalty what it may, I here frankly offer to give out these slips with the forbidden information to those needy wives and mothers who will frankly come and take them.

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