The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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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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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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