Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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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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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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All men & women are created equal.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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