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“I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.” quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton — Download Open image

“I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.”

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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 individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her…

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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 before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play…

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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 higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to…

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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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“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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God speaks through me.

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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

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Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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