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NJHN HumanLight Celebration 12/17/23
Members of NJHN and Red Bank Humanists tabling at Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, June 2023
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Freethought Quotes

  • “How we define “better” is critical to understanding the philosophy of Humanism. Humanists judge outcomes using a compassion-based morality and we are totally unapologetic about that. If it helps humans, it is a good outcome. If it hurts, it is bad. Absent from our thinking and reasoning is anything that could be considered supernatural or religious.”
    by Jennifer Hancock
    Jen Hancock's Handy Humanism Handbook
  • “Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: ‘that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.”
    by Carter G. Woodson, historian, author, founder of Negro History Week (now Black History Month)
    The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)
  • “Humanism is a philosophy of life, a way of moving through the world in connection with others that rejects supernatural notions and positions humans as fully accountable for the arrangement of our individual and collective life—having only the best of our thinking and doing. We, as my grandmother would say, move through the world knowing our footsteps matter.”
    by Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, 2016 Reason Rally
    https://thehumanist.com/commentary/dr-anthony-pinn-speaks-humanism-diversity-unity-reason-rally-2016
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