Bible Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

14 Bible quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s fourteen Scripture‑related notes provide a succinct glimpse into her feminist critique. Though limited in number, they highlight her call for gender equity within religious discourse.

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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

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“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.”

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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.…

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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…

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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

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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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All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with…

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When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the…

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I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where…

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These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that…

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Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in…

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“The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she…

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The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she…

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“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors…

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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…

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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

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Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her…

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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to…

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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

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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 prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

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Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that…

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The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned…

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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a…

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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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It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…How much more ridiculous…

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Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made…

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