Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONIf 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…?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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All men & women are created equal.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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