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Annie Besant

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

1847–1933

5 quotes.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
The Freethinker’s Text-Book: Christianity
- Anti-Religion
- Women
The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.
The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
- God
- Religion
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
Annie Besant: An Autobiography, p. 89
- Atheism
- Clever Jabs
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
The Political Thought of Annie Besant, p. 104
- Liberty
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893), p. 357; 3rd edition (1908), p. 357
- Knowledge
- Thinking

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