My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.… — 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
Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of… — 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
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — 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
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — 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
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 been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates,… — 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
