Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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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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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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