9 Quotes by Ben Lindsey

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    I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

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    Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

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    Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

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    I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

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    The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.

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    Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

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    It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work to do. We don't just want to go there and be seen. We want to go there and win it.

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    Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

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