What Elizabeth Cady Stanton thinks about religion
American writer and activist (1815 to 1902), a leader of the US women's rights movement; the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments.
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3 dated positions, c. 1898, in their own words. Our reading of what Elizabeth Cady Stanton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingNo question is more important than freeing women from past political, religious and social dogmas
Their wordsTo me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.
↗Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898)gutenberg.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsWhen women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayerbooks, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brain of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of "Thus saith the Lord."
↗Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898)gutenberg.org All 7 from this book
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Their wordsI took the ground that woman was not indebted to any form of religion for the liberty she now enjoys, but that, on the contrary, the religious element in her nature had always been perverted for her complete subjection.
↗Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (1898)gutenberg.org All 7 from this book
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