Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWoman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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