“We must demand that the pulpit be no longer desecrated by men who read passages of Scripture or preach from texts that teach subordination of one-half the human race to the other.”
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Speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the Reunion of the Pioneers and Friends of Woman's Progress 12 November 1895
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