“When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*”

“When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*”

“Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848”

“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.”

“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.”

“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?”

“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”

“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”

“The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

“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.”

“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.”