The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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 history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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 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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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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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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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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