July 14, 2012
"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature."

— Carl Sagan

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April 23, 2011
"…the pattern and original of all dictatorship is the surrender of reason to absolutism and the abandonment of critical, objective inquiry."

— Christopher Hitchens, Message to American Atheists

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