Ben Lindsey quotes

Ben Lindsey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.”
-- Ben Lindsey

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“Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.”
-- Ben Lindsey

Source : Source: articles.latimes.com

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“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
-- Ben Lindsey

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“Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship”
-- Ben Lindsey

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“I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.”
-- Ben Lindsey

Source : "Philippines Free Press", Volume 62, Issues 46-52, (p. 44), 1969.

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“The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.”
-- Ben Lindsey

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