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HUMANISM AND ITS
ASPIRATIONS
Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist
Manifesto of 1933*
We who sign Humanism and Its Aspirations
declare ourselves in general agreement with its substance.
Notable Signers
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Philip Appleman
Poet and distinguished
professor emeritus of English, Indiana University
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Khoren Arisian
Senior Leader, NY Society for
Ethical Culture
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Bill Baird
Reproductive rights pioneer
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Frank Berger
Pharmacologist, developer of
anti-anxiety drugs
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Howard Box
Minister emeritus, Oak Ridge
Unitarian Universalist Church, Tennessee
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Lester R. Brown
Founder and president, Earth
Policy Institute
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August E. Brunsman IV
Executive director, Secular
Student Alliance
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Rob Buitenweg
Vice president, International
Humanist and Ethical Union
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Vern Bullough
Sexologist and former copresident
of the International Humanist and Ethical Union
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David Bumbaugh
Professor, Meadville Lombard
Theological School
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Matt Cherry
Executive director, Institute
for Humanist Studies
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Joseph Chuman
Visiting professor of religion,
Columbia University, and leader, Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County,
New Jersey
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Curt Collier
leader, Riverdale-Yonkers
Society for Ethical Culture, New York
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Fred Cook
Retired executive committee
member, International Humanist and Ethical Union
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Carlton Coon
Former US Ambassador to Nepal
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Richard Dawkins
Charles Simonyi professor,
University of Oxford
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Charles Debrovner
President, NACH/Humanist
Institute
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Arthur Dobrin
Professor of humanities,
Hofstra University and leader emeritus Ethical Humanist Society of Long
Island, New York
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Margaret Downey
President, Freethought Society
of Greater Philadelphia
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Sonja Eggerickx
Vice president, Unie
Vrijzinnige, Belgium, and vice president
International Humanist and Ethical Union
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Riane Eisler
President, Center for
Partnership Studies
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Albert Ellis
Creator of Rational Emotive
Behavior Therapy and founder of the Alber Ellis Institute
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Edward L. Ericson
Leader emeritus, Ethical
Culture
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Roy P. Fairfield
Cofounder, Union Graduate
School
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Antony Flew
Philosopher
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Werner Fornos
President, the Population
Institute
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Levi Fragell
President, International
Humanist and Ethical Union
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Arun Gandhi
Cofounder, M.K. Gandhi
Institute for Nonviolence
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Kendyl Gibbons
President, Unitarian
Universalist Ministers Association
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Babu R.R. Gogineni
Executive director,
International Humanist and Ethical Union
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Sol Gordon
Sexologist
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Ethelbert Haskins
Retired treasurer of the
Humanist Foundation
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Jim Herrick
Editor, the New Humanist
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Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam
University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Fran P. Hosken
Editor, Women's International
Network News
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Joan Johnson Lewis
President, National Leaders
Council of the American Ethical Union
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Stefan Jonasson
Immediate past president,
HUUmanists
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Larry Jones
President, Institute for
Humanist Studies
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Edwin Kagin
Founder and director, Camp
Quest
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Beth Lamont
AHA NGO representative to the
United Nations
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Gerald A. Larue
Professor emeritus of biblical
history and archaeology, University of Southern California
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Joseph Levee
Board member, Council for
Secular Humanism
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Ellen McBride
Immediate past president,
American Ethical Union
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Lester Mondale
Retired Unitarian Universalist
minister and signer of Humanist Manifestos I and II
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Henry Morgentaler
Abortion rights pioneer
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Stephen Mumford
President, Center for Research
on Population and Security
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William Murry
President and dean,
Meadville-Lombard Theological School
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Sarah Oelberg
President, HUUmanists
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Indumati Parikh
President, Center for the Study
of Social Change, India
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Philip Paulson
Church-state activist
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Katha Pollitt
Columnist, the Nation
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Howard Radest
Dean emeritus, the Humanist
Institute
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James "Amazing" Randi
Magician, founder of the James
Randi Educational Foundation
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Larry Reyka
President, the Humanist Society
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David Schafer
Retired research physiologist,
U.S. Veterns Administration
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Eugenie Scott
Executive director, National
Center for Science Education
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Michael Shermer
Editor of Skeptic magazine
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James R. Simpson
Professor of international
agricultural economics, Ryukoku University, Japan
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Warren Allen Smith
Editor and author
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Matthew Ies. Spetter
Associate professor in social
psychology at the Peace Studies Institute of Manhattan College, NY
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Oliver Stone
Academy award-winning filmmaker
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John Swomley
Professor emeritus of social
ethics, St. Paul School of Theology
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Robert Tapp
Dean, the Humanist Institute
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Carl Thitchener
Co-minister, Unitarian
Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canadaigua, New York
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Maureen Thitchener
Co-minister, Unitarian
Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canadaigua, New York
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Rodrigue Tremblay
Emeritus professor of economics
and of international finance, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist
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John Weston
Ministerial settlement
director, Unitarian Universalist Association
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Edward O. Wilson
Professor, Harvard University,
and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
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Sherwin Wine
Founder and president, Society
for Humanistic Judaism
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Nobel Laureates
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Philip W. Anderson
Physics, 1977
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Paul D. Boyer
Chemistry, 1997
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Owen Chamberlain
Physics, 1959
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Francis Crick
Medicine, 1962
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Paul J. Crutzen
Chemistry, 1995
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Physics, 1991
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Johann Deisenhofer
Chemistry, 1988
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Jerome I. Friedman
Physics, 1990
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Sheldon Glashow
Physics, 1979
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David J. Gross
Physics, 2004
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Herbert A. Hauptman
Chemistry, 1985
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Dudley Herschbach
Chemistry, 1986
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Harold W. Kroto
Chemistry, 1996
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Yuan T. Lee
Chemistry, 1986
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Mario J. Molina
Chemistry, 1995
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Erwin Neher
Medicine, 1991
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Ilya Prigogine
Chemistry, 1977
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Richard J. Roberts
Medicine, 1993
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John E. Sulston
Medicine, 2002
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Henry Taube
Chemistry, 1983
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E. Donnall Thomas
Medicine, 1990
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James Dewey Watson
Medicine, 1962
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All Living Past AHA Presidents
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Edd Doerr
1995-2002
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Michael W. Werner
1993-1994
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Suzanne I. Paul
1992
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Lyle L. Simpson
1981-1984
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Bette Chambers
1973-1979
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Lloyd L. Morain
1969-1972, 1951-1955
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Robert W. McCoy
1966-1968
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Vashti McCollum
1962-1965
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Current AHA Board
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Mel Lipman
president
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Lois Lyons
vice president
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Ronald W. Fegley
secretary
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John Nugent
treasurer
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Edd Doerr
immediate past president
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Wanda Alexander
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John Cole
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Tom Ferrick
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Robert Finch
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John M. Higgins
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Herb Silverman
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Maddy Urken
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Mike Werner
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Drafting Committee
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Fred Edwords
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Edd Doerr
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Tony Hileman
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Pat Duffy Hutcheon
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Maddy Urken
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Titles are as of the date of signing in 2003
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