Agnostic Christian
“But we were good boys...we didn't break the Sabbath often enough to signify – once a week perhaps... Anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.” ”…the goodness, the justice, and the mercy of God are manifested in His works…" "Faith is believing what you know ain't so” "If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian" There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory as it is – in our country particularly and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree – it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime – the invention of Hell.
Biography
Science and Technology: Tesla Labs and inventions Financial Troubles: Investments and Losses Health Problems: European Baths Bankruptcy: Henry Rogers Tours: Comedy, Lectures, and Readings Depression: Daughters and Wife (1896-1904) Died: Heart Attack; Haley’s Comet (1910)
Women’s Rights: “I should like to see the time come when women shall help to make the laws. I should like to see that whiplash, the ballot, in the hands of women.”
Politicsave thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris [which ended the Spanish–American War], and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem.
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”
Worth 20 points
(will do the same with Mark Twain)
Twain video
Biography
Born: 1835 (Haley’s comet) Name: Samuel L. Clemens Family: Southern; 6 siblings; attorney and judge Hannibal Missouri Printer’s Apprentice (1847) Self-Education Steamboat Pilot: Pen Name Civil War: 2 weeks
Politics: Labor
“Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”
Works: Short Stories
Advice to Little Girls" (1865) "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1867) "General Washington's Negro BodyServant" (1868)[citation needed] "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship" (1868)[citation needed] "A Ghost Story" (1870)[2]:176–180 "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It" (1874)[2]:70–73 "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls" (1875)[2]:77–83 "A Literary Nightmare" (1876) "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" (1876) "The Invalid's Story" (1877)[2]:135–? "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (1879)[citation needed] "1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" (1880) "The Stolen White Elephant" (1882) "Luck" (1891) "Those Extraordinary Twins" (1892) "The ₤1,000,000 Note" (1893)[2]:226– 238 "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1900) "A Double Barrelled Detective Story" (1902) "A Dog's Tale" (1904) "Extracts from Adam's Diary" (1904) "The War Prayer" (1905) "Eve's Diary" (1906) "A Horse's Tale" (1907) "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" (1909) "My Platonic Sweetheart" (1912, posthumous) "The Private Life of Adam and Eve" (1931, posthumous)[citation needed]
"there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages”
Politics: Civil Rights
Mark Twain
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Biography
Western Travels: Orion Nevada: Territorial Express San Francisco (1864) Success: Tall Tales Reporter: Hawaii Tour of the Mediterranean Marriage: Olivia Langdon