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Abbot, Francis Ellingwood
Abington Town School District v. Schempp issued
Ackermann Louise Victorine
Adams, Douglas
Adams, John Q.
Adams, John
Addams, Jane
Adler, Felix
Aikenhead, Thomas (hanged for blasphemy)
Alain (quote)
Albee, Edward
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Ali, Tariq
Allen, Col. Ethan
Allen, Grant
Allen, Woody
Allen, Steve
Allsop, Thomas
Andrews, Stephen Pearl
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler
Annet, Peter (died)
Anthony, Susan B.
Anthony, Susan B. (quote)
Appleman, Philip
Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abaraca
Armstrong, Lance
Arnold, Matthew
Arnoldson, Klas Pontus
Arrhenius, Svante August
Arriaga, Manoel Jose d'
Asimov, Isaac
Astruc, Jean
Atwood, Margaret

Bakunin, Mikhail
Ballance, John
Balmaceda, Jose Manuel (died)
Balzac, Honore de
Bancel, Francois
Barker, Dan
Barlow, Joel
Barton, Clara
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Bashkirtseff, Marie
Baskerville, John
Baudelaire, Charles
Bauer, Bruno
Bayle, Pierre
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beethoven, Ludwig von
Bennett, D.M.
Benson, Steve
Bentham, Jeremy
Beranger, Pierre Jean de
Bergman, Ingmar
Berlin, Irving
Berlioz, Hector
Berthelot, Pierre Eugene Marcelin
Besant, Annie
Bierce, Ambrose
Bill of Rights ratified
Bizet, Georges
Bjork
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne
Blackmun, Justice (Roe v. Wade decision)
Blake, Lillie Devereux
Blake, William
Blass, Bill
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Bolingbroke, Viscount
Bolivar, Simon
Bonheur, Rosa
Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh
Born, Max (quote)
Bourke-White, Margaret
Bowman, Meg
Boyer, Paul D.
Bradlaugh, Charles
Brahms, Johannes
Brandes, Carl
Brando, Marlon
Brennan, Justice William J. (quote)
Brooke, Rupert
Broun, Heywood C.
Browning, Robert
Bruce, Lenny (quote)
Bruno, Giordano (executed)
Buck, Pearl
Bunuel, Luis
Burbank, Luther
Burgess, Anthony
Burns, Robert
Burroughs, John
Burton, Sir Richard F
Butler, Samuel 17th century (quote)
Butler, Samuel 19th century
Byron, Lord

Camus, Albert
Cape, Emily
Carlile, Richard
Carlin, George
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie, Andrew
Caroline, Queen
Catherine II
Cavendish, Henry
Chamberlain, Daniel Henry
Chaplin, Charlie
Chatelet, Marquise du
Chatterton, Thomas
Child, Lydia Maria
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (quote)
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clemenceau, Georges
Cleyre, Voltairine de
Clodd, Edward
Clooney, George
Cohen, Chapman
Colby, Clara Bewick
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Anthony
Colman, Lucy
Comte, Auguste
Condell, Pat
Conrad, Joseph
Conway, Moncure Daniel
Copland, Aaron
Crick, Francis
Crisp, Quentin
Cronenberg, David
Cross, David
Cummings, E. E.
Curie, Marie S.

Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Charles (quote)
Dawkins, Richard
Debs, Eugene V.
Debussy, Claude
Delacroix, Eugene
Delambre, Jean Baptiste
Delius, Frederick
Dennett, Daniel C.
Deraismes, Maria
Dewey, John
Diaz, Porfirio
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily (quote)
Diderot, Denis
Diderot, Denis (quote)
Diderot, Denis (quote)
Dietrich, Marlene
Dietrick, Ellen Battelle (quote)
DiFranco, Ani
Dillard, Annie (quote)
Dinesen, Isak
Douglass, Frederick
DuBois, W.E.B.
Duffy, Patrick
Duncan, Isadora

Edison, Thomas Alva
Eccleston, Christopher
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Einstein, Albert
Eliot, George
Ellis, Havelock
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (quote)
Emmet, Robert (hanged)
Engels, Friedrich
Epicurus (quote)
Everett, Daniel

Fahringer, Catherine
Farmer, Frances
Feiffer, Jules
Feynman, Richard
Fields, W.C.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
First Amendment ratified
Flaubert, Gustave
Fonda, Henry
Foote, G.W.
Foote, E.B.
Ford, Harrison
Foster, Jodie
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
Fowles, John
France, Anatole
France, Anatole (quote)
France, Anatole (quote)
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederick II
Freud, Sigmund
Freud, Sigmund (quote)
Freud, Sigmund (quote)
Fromm, Erich
Frost, Robert
Fulks, Robbie
Fuller, Margaret

Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Gage, Matilda Joslyn (quote)
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Gale, Zona
Galilei, Galileo
Gallatin, Albert
Galsworthy, John
Galton, Sir Francis
Gardener, Helen H.
Gardner, Martin
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gaylor, Annie Laurie
Gaylor, Anne Nicol
Gaylor, Anne Nicol (quote)
Gaylor, Anne Nicol (quote)
Gershwin, George
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, Ella E
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Girard, Stephen
Godwin, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldman, Emma
Goldwater, Barry (quote)
Gora
Gorky, Maxim
Gorney, Jay
Gould, Stephen J.
Grant, Ulysses S.
Green, Ruth Hurmence
Greenaway, Kate
Groening, Matt

Haldane, J.B.S. (quote)
Haldeman-Julius, E.
Hall, Sharlot
Halley, Edmund
Hamerstrom, Frances
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harburg, Yip
Harris, Sam (quote)
Hawking, Stephen
Heilbroner, Robert Louis
Heinlein, Robert A.
Heller, Joseph
Henry, Josephine K.
Hepburn, Katharine
Hersh, Seymour (quote)
Hitchens, Christopher
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffer, Eric
Holbach, Baron d'
Holmes, Jr. Oliver Wendell
Holyoake, George Jacob
Holyoake, George Jacob (quote)
Housman, A.E.
Hubbard, Alice
Hubbard, Elbert
Hughes, Rupert
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Victor
Hume, David
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hutchinson, Anne (banished)
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Julian
Huxley, M.D., Thomas Henry
Huxley, Thomas Henry (quote)

Ibsen, Henrik
Idle, Eric
Inge, William Ralph
Ingersoll, Eva
Ingersoll, Maud
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Ingersoll, Robert G. (marriage to Eva Parker)
Ingersoll, Robert G. (quote)
Ingersoll, Robert G. (quote)
Ingersoll, Robert G. (quote)
Ingersoll, Robert G. (quote)
Ionesco, Eugene (quote)
Irving, John

Jaffree, Ishmael
Jefferson, Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas ("Wall of separation")
Jefferson, Thomas (Virginia Statute for religious freedom)
Jefferson, Thomas (Declaration of Independence)
Jefferson, Thomas (quote)
Johnson, Sonia
Jonson, Ben (quote)
Johnson, Sonia (excommunicated)
Jolie, Angelina
Jones, Terry
Joplin, Scott
Joyce, James

Kahlo, Frida
Keats, John
Kennedy, John F. (quote)
Kern, Jerome
Key, Ellen
Khayyam, Omar (quote)
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Kinnock, Neil
Kinsley, Michael
Kneeland, Abner
Knight, Margaret
Knowlton, MD, Charles
Krassner, Paul
Krekel, Judge Arnold
Krekel, Mattie Parry
Kroto, Sir Harold
Kubrick, Stanley
Kundera, Milan

La Bruyere, Jean de (quote)
LaMarck, Jean Baptiste
Lancaster, Burt
Lanchester, Elsa
Law, Harriet
Le Carre, John (quote)
LeGuin, Ursula
Lehrer, Tom
Leland, Lilian
Lems, Kristin
Lennon, John
Lennstrand, Viktor E. (freethought rally)
Leopold, Aldo
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing, Doris
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Joseph
Lincoln, Abraham
Linton, Eliza Lynn
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, James Russell
Lowell, Robert
Luxemburg, Rosa

MacDonald, Eugene M.
Macdonald, George Everett
Madison, James
Madison, James (quote)
Magellan, Ferdinand (quote)
Mahler, Gustave
Mailer, Norman (quote)
Malkovich, John
Malraux, Andre
Manz, Felix (died)
Marlowe, Christopher
Martineau, Harriet
Marx, Karl
Maslow, Abraham H.
Matisse, Henri
Matulis, Sherry
Maupassant, Guy de
Mazzini, Giuseppe
McCabe, Joseph
McCollum, Vashti Cromwell
McCollum v. Board of Education
McEwan, Ian
McQueen, Butterfly
McQueen, Alexander
Melville, Herman
Mencken, H. L.
Mencken, H. L. (quote)
Mencken, H. L. (quote)
Mencken, H. L. (quote)
Mencken, H. L. (quote)
Mendum, Josiah P.
Meredith, George
Merimee, Prosper
Michener, James
Mill, John Stuart
Mill, John Stuart (quote)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (quote)
Milne, A.A.
Mitford, Jessica
Moliere
Montagu, Ashley
Montaigne, Michel de
Montaigne, Michel de (quote)
Montaigne, Michel de (quote)
Montesquieu, Baron de
Montesquieu (quote)
Moore, George Augustus
Moore, Julianne
Morgan, Robin
Morley, John (quote)
Morley, John
Mott, Lucretia (quote)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Murdoch, Iris

Nansen, Fridjof
Naquet, Alfred
Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Neruda, Pablo (quote)
Newman, Paul
Nicholson, Jack
Nielsen, Leslie
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Frederich (quote)
Nightingale, Florence
Noyes, MD, Rufus King

Oates, Joyce Carol
O'Neill, Eugene
Orton, Justice H.S. (Weiss decision quoted)
Orwell, George
Ouida
Owen, Robert
Owen, Robert Dale

Paganini, Niccolo
Paine, Thomas
Paine, Thomas (quote)
Palmer, Courtlandt
Parker, Dorothy (quote)
Palmer, Elihu
Parker, Eva (marriage to Robert Ingersoll)
Parton, James
Pascal, Blaise (quote)
Paul, Alice
Pauling, Linus
Pfeffer, Leo
Phillpotts, Eden
Piercy, Marge (quote)
Pillsbury, Parker
Pinter, Harold
Pinter, Harold
Pissarro, Camille
Platiere, Marie Jeanne Roland de la
Poe, Edgar Allen
Pollitt, Katha
Pollitt, Katha (quote)
Pope, Alexander
Porter, Cole
Pozner, Vladimir
Priestley, Joseph
Proust, Marcel
Pushkin, Aleksandr
Putnam, Samuel Porter

Rand, Ayn
Randall, Tony
Randi, James
Reagan, Ron (quote)
Reeve, Christopher (quote)
Remsburg, John E.
Ricker, Marilla M.
Ricker, Marilla M. (quote)
Robbins, Tom
Robertson, J.M.
Robeson, Paul
Roddenberry, Gene (quote)
Rodgers, Richard
Rodin, Auguste
Roe v. Wade decision
Rooney, Andy
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rose, Ernestine L.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Ross, William Stewart
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Rule, Jane
Rushdie, Salman
Rushdie, Salman (quote)
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Bertrand (quote)
Russell, Bertrand (quote)
Russell, Bertrand (quote)
Russell, Bertrand (quote)

Sagan, Carl
Sand, George
Sandburg, Carl
Sanger, Margaret (Woman Rebel founded)
Sanger, Margaret
Santayana, George
Santayana, George (quote)
Sarandon, Susan (quote)
Sargent, Pamela
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schempp, Ed
Schempp, Ed (Abington Town School District v. Schempp issued)
Schiller, Freidrich von
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schopenhauer, Arthur (quote)
Schreiner, Olive
Schroeder, Theodore
Schuman, Robert
Scopes, John (arrested for teaching evolution)
Scott, Thomas
Seaver, Horace
Seldes, George
Semple, Etta
Servetus, Michael (executed)
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shelly, Percy Bysshe (quote)
Shostakovich, Dmitriy
Silver, Queen
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Peter (quote)
Skinner, B.F.
Slenker, Elmina D.
Smith, Adam
Smith, Barbara Leigh (Bodichon)
Smith, Kay Nolte
Smith, William
Smoker, Barbara
Soderbergh, Steven
Sondheim, Stephen
Sontag, Susan (quote)
Spencer, Herbert
Spinoza, Benedict
Stael, Mme. De
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (quote)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (quote)
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (quote)
Steiger, Rod
Stein, Gertrude (quote)
Steinbeck, John
Steinem, Gloria
Stephen, Sir Leslie
Sterling, Bruce
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stout, Robert
Strauss, David Friedrich
Strauss, Richard
Strindberg, Johan August
Sweeney, Julia
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Szasz, Thomas

Talleyrand-Perigord
Taylor, Helen
Taylor, James
Taylor, Robert
Tchaikovsky, Peter Illyich
Tennyson, Alfred
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thomas, Helen
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurber, James
Thurman, Uma
Tillman, Pat
Tindal, Mathew
Toland, John
Tolstoy, Leo
Torcaso, Roy (Torcaso v. Watkins issued)
Tridon, Edme Marie Gustave
Truelove, Edward
Turgenev, Ivan
Turner, Joseph
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark (quote)
Twain, Mark (quote)
Twain, Mark (quote)
Twain, Mark (quote)
Twain, Mark (quote)

Underwood, Benjamin

Vanini, Lucilio (executed)
Veblen, Thorstein
Verdi, Giuseppe
Verdi, Giuseppe (quote)
Viau, Theophile de (died)
Vidal, Gore
Voelkel, Titus
Voltaire
Voltaire (quote)
Vonnegut, Kurt

Walker, Alice
Walker, Barbara G.
Wallace v. Jaffree (issued)
Walpole, Robert
Washington, George
Watson, James D
Watson, James
Watson, Peter
Weiss decision, 1890
Wells, G.A.
Wells, H.G.
West, Rebecca
Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini
Whitman, Walt
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Wilde, Oscar
Wilde, Oscar (quote)
Wilkes, John
Williams, Ted
Williams, Roger (banished)
Willis, Bruce
Wodehouse, P.G.
Wolfe, Tom (quote)
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Woman Rebel founded
Woodhull, Victoria
Woolf, Virginia
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Frances
Wright, Frances (public speaking)

Xenophanes (quote)

Youmans, MD, Edward Livingston

Zappa, Frank
Zola, Emile

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