You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion that has breathed upon this earth, has degraded woman. There is not one that has not always made her subject to man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Oppression of women Religion

Speaker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Women's right activist Writer Activist

From

United States

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Original Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Speech in Washington, DC. Seventeeth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Assoociation. Jan. 1885, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887. Vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1997.

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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

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Topic
Class warfare
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William E. Gladstone
Medium
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Language
English
Time
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Citation

Gladstone, William E. Speech in Liverpool. 28 June 1886, Hengler's Circus, Liverpool, England, UK.

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

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Topic
Citizens of the world Religion

Author

Thomas Paine
Source
Rights of Man
Genre
Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
English
Time
1792 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

Current Citation

Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.