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The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education;…

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to…

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Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

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Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

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The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

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Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought…

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The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

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History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most…

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The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of…

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... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

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When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we…

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Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake…

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