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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.

~Annie Besant

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

~Annie Besant

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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

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There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

~Annie Besant

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There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

~Annie Besant

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You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

~Annie Besant

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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

~Annie Besant

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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.

~Annie Besant

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 1st, 1847

Died: September 20th, 1933

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