"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"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
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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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"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?"
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."
-Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken."
-Lemuel K. Washburn
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
-Vince Neil
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
-Sydney Schanberg
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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."
-Frederick II
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
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