Occupation: Activist Birth: March 24, 1826 Death: March 18, 1898
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization..
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of ….
When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when ….
The soul must support its own supremacy or die..
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her te….
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life ….
There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty..
Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church..
Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man h….
Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment.
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisi….
... non-use of rights does not destroy them..
The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect b….
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal tow….
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win….
History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder….
When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? ….
Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of other….
It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman..