The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
