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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood."

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"The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood."

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"The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today."

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"The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy."

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"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."

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"For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine."

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"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."

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"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."

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"Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is."

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"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."

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Amber Hurdle

"The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research."

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"I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School."

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"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth."
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"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development."
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"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."
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"Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement."
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"We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman."
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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?"
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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."
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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."
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"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."
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"Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted."
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