Francesc Ferrer i Guardia quotes
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“We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.”
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“Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.”
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“When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.”
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“It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.”
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“When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.”
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“I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.”
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“Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.”
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“We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.”
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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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Source : "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.
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