The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONProgress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The best protection any woman can have… is courage.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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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.
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What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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