Church Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

16 Church quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s reflections on the church intersect with her advocacy for equality. Across sixteen concise quotes she examines gender roles, reform, and the spiritual agency of women within religious structures.

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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 Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,…

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When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will…

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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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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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Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn…

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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,…

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The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone,…

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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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It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of…

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If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the…

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As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid…

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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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