Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
Interpretation
True religion upholds the dignity and rights of all individuals, rather than sacrificing some for the benefit of others.
This quote by Julia Ward Howe emphasizes that any religion that permits the harm or subjugation of certain groups of people, particularly women, for the benefit of others is fundamentally flawed. True religion should promote equality, justice, and compassion, rejecting practices that devalue human life in any form.
In practice
During a speech on women's rights, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of equality.
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, _x000D_ Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: _x000D_ 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; _x000D_ And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -
I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.
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