Famous Speeches Complete by Robert Green Ingersoll

Famous Speeches Complete by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Maybe the most famous American of his day was Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899). Ingersoll was a passionate promoter of reasonable thought, combating superstition and hypocrisy wherever he found it as an enlightened freethinker and pioneer of humanitarian, rational, and agnostic beliefs. This committed popularizer would address large crowds on a regular basis, exposing them to concepts that typically elicited guarded whispers in private. Ingersoll was a visionary who advocated for progressive issues such as agnosticism, birth control, women's voting rights, scientific advancement, racial rights, and freedom of expression. His support for such divisive principles left an indelible mark on both his age and subsequent generations. Despite the fact that Robert Ingersoll lived before the birth of the Secular Humanist Movement, he is unquestionably one of the Humanist Pantheon's great heroes.