I found that the clergy did not understand their own book
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
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You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought
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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand injustice everywhere hypocrisy at the altar venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
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