“A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.”

Article 24
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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