"The Church is a terrible engine of oppression,……" — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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103 Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to…
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We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or…
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never…
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human…
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place,…
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I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every…
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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything…
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Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy…
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions,…
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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…
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And…
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I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.
— Michael Badnarik
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together…
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,…
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I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were…
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
— Charles Barkley
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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