Honorary Knight Commanders
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when
they do it from religious conviction."
� The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.� The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
� To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
� The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
� I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
� Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
(Four quotes by) Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
� Nothing grows slower than truth, and nothing faster than superstition.
� The first thing for people to do is to get rid of the silly notion that there is anything holy in the name of Jesus any more than in the name of Hercules, Bacchus, or Adonis.
� Above all, teach children that prayer is idiotic. There may be one God or twenty. I do not know or care.
� We are living in the Twentieth Century of what is called the Christian Era, and we have not outgrown the superstitions of the First Century.
� The greatest danger which confronts our nation today is not political but religious, and the preservation of our free institutions does not depend upon our army and navy, but upon the emancipation of the human mind from ecclesiastical slavery. ...You can not have free schools, free speech and a free press where the mind is not free.
(Five quotes by) Marilla Ricker 1840-1920
I sit alone on the rock of my own individuality, with the waves of superstition and religious tyranny surging around me.
Josephine K. Henry
Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them.
Sophie Arnould 1744-1802
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it� turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
Editor's note: Be warned people � I admire these women mightilly. There will be hundreds more quotes from these, and other bold & beautiful suffragettes. What magnificent courage to speak out in an age dominated by god-sucking male sycophants!
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