“What is even more remarkable, however, is that this reactionary tract was penned by a self-proclaimed freethinker and anarchist.”

“He was a freethinker at a time when to have thoughts of your own was to be an outcast.”

“One must be, as much as possible, an atheist freethinker. As people grow older and remain in the religion into which they were born, they lose themselves by believing too easily what they are told.”

“His parents were religious but freethinking, and he attended the Church of England and the Wesleyan chapel.”

“Thompson is the freethinking, questioning spirit of a population that once challenged its government instead of championing it.”

“This was in Kishinv, a hot-bed of noisy, passionate freethinking blended with Asiatic aboriginality.”

“Abolitionists, freethinkers, and suffragettes found spiritual innovation compatible with their quest for social reform.”

“In short, in England and in America, the freedoms we have won were won often by alliance between freethinkers and religious progressives.”

“Clarifying what is science and what is superstition must become the top priority of India's freethinkers.”