Bradlaugh, Charles
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Bradlaugh, Charles (1833–91). Radical, atheist, and republican lecturer and journalist. Born in London, he rose from solicitor's clerk and part-time
secularist lecturer to become one of the most formidable public speakers and unofficial legal advocates in Victorian Britain. He owned and largely edited the
National Reformer from 1862, formed the National Secular Society in 1866, and launched the National Republican League in 1873. New heights of notoriety were achieved with the republication and prosecution of the ‘Knowlton Pamphlet’ with Annie
Besant in 1877. In 1880 he was elected to Parliament for Northampton, but as an avowed atheist was not allowed to take the oath of allegiance. His attempt to secure entry to the Commons, not successful until 1886, made him the leader of democratic opinion in Britain. In Parliament, he took a special interest in Indian affairs and gained some credit for his resolute opposition to socialism.
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Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie.
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Censorship deadens
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; ...speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race." - Charles Bradlaugh, English statesman who was expelled from Parliament for refusing to take a religious oath, 1890
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Charles Bradlaugh
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Charles Bradlaugh The English freethinker and political agitator Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891) successfully struggled...Commons. The son of a poor clerk, Charles Bradlaugh was born in London on Sept. 26...
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Bradlaugh, Charles (1833-1891)
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Bradlaugh, Charles
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Bradlaugh, Charles (1833–91), social reformer and advocate of free thought. His voice was to be heard on platforms throughout the...
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Besant, Annie (1847-1933)
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Annie Wood Besant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...The next year Besant joined Charles Bradlaugh in his Secularist movement...She became a vice president of Bradlaugh's Secular Society and wrote...much atheist journalism. With Bradlaugh, she was prosecuted for spreading...
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