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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWords cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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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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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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