The original Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state

We believe those values never faded away and are, in fact, as foundational today as they were three hundred years ago.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt 1906-1975
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins – 1941 –
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood –
1939 –
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin 1924-1976
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
Steven Pinker – 1954 –