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1. Free Inquiry
2. Separation Of Church And State
3. The Ideal Of Freedom
4. Ethics Based On Critical Intelligence
5. Moral Education
6. Religious Skepticism
7. Reason
8. Science And Technology
9. Evolution
10. Education

Signatories

United States

• George Abell (professor of astronomy, UCLA)
• John Anton (professor of philosophy, Emory University)
• Khoren Arisian (minister, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis)
• Isaac Asimov (science fiction author)
• Paul Beattie (minister, All Souls Unitarian Church; president, Fellowship of Religious Humanism)
• H. James Birx (professor of anthropology and sociology, Canisius College)
• Brand Blanshard (professor emeritus of philosophy, Yale)
• Joseph L. Blau (Profelsor Emeritus of Religion, Columbia)
• Francis Crick (Nobel Prize Laureate, Salk Institute)
• Arthur Danto (professor of philosophy, Columbia University)
• Albert Ellis (executive director, Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy)
• Roy Fairfield (former professor of social science, Antioch)
• Herbert Feigl (professor emeritus of philosophy, University of Minnesota)
• Joseph Fletcher (theologian, University of Virginia Medical School)
• Sidney Hook (professor emeritus of philosophy, NYU, fellow at Hoover Institute)
• George Hourani (professor of philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo)
• Walter Kaufmann (professor of philosophy, Princeton)
• Marvin Kohl (professor of philosophy, medical ethics, State University of New York at Fredonia)
• Richard Kostelanetz (writer, artist, critic)
• Paul Kurtz (Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo)
• Joseph Margolis (professor of philosophy, Temple University)
• Floyd Matson (professor of American Studies, University of Hawaii)
• Ernest Nagel (professor emeritus of philosophy, Columbia)
• Lee Nisbet (associate professor of philosophy, Medaille)
• George Olincy (lawyer)
• Virginia Olincy
• W. V. Quine (professor of philosophy, Harvard University)
• Robert Rimmer (novelist)
• Herbert Schapiro (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
• Herbert Schneider (professor emeritus of philosophy, Claremont College)
• B. F. Skinner (professor emeritus of psychology, Harvard)
• Gordon Stein (editor, The American Rationalist)
• George Tomashevich (professor of anthropology, Buffalo State University College)
• Valentin Turchin (Russian dissident; computer scientist, City College, City University of New York)
• Sherwin Wine (rabbi, Birmingham Temple, founder, Society for Humanistic Judaism)
• Marvin Zimmerman (professor of philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo)

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Canada

• Henry Morgentaler (physician, Montreal)
• Kai Nielsen (professor of philosophy, University of Calgary)

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France

• Yves Galifret (executive director, Union Rationaliste)
• Jean Claude Pecker (professor of astrophysics, College de France, Academie des Sciences)

Great Britain (i.e. United Kingdom)

• Sir A.J. Ayer (professor of philosophy, Oxford University)
• H.J. Blackham (former chairman, Social Morality Council and British Humanist Association)
• Bernard Crick (professor of politics, Birkbeck College, London University)
• Sir Raymond Firth (professor emeritus of anthropology, University of London)
• Jim Herrick (then editor of The Freethinker)
• Zheres A. Medvedev (Russian dissident; Medical Research Council)
• Dora Russell (Mrs. Bertrand Russell) ]] (author)
• Lord Ritchie Calder (president, Rationalist Press Association)
• Harry Stopes-Roe (senior lecturer in science studies, University of Birmingham; chairman, British Humanist Association)
• Nicolas Walter (editor, New Humanist)
• Baroness Barbara Wootton (Deputy Speaker, House of Lords)

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India

• B. Shah (president, Indian Secular Society; director, Institute for the Study of Indian Traditions)
• V. M. Tarkunde (Supreme Court Judge, chairman, Indian Radical Humanist Association)

Israel

• Shulamit Aloni (lawyer, member of Knesset, head of Citizens Rights Movement)

Norway

• Alastair Hannay (professor of philosophy, University of Trondheim)

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Yugoslavia

• Milovan Djilas (author, former vice president of Yugoslavia)
• M. Markovic (professor of philosophy, Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts and University of Belgrade)
• Svet. Stojanovic (professor of philosophy, University of Belgrade)

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External links

• Text of the Declaration