In 1885 Elizabeth Cady Stanton told a meeting of the National Womans Suffrage Association:
"You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman . . . What holds the Turkish woman in the harem? Her religion. By what power do the Mormons perpetuate their system of polygamy? By their religion. Man, of himself, could no do this; but when he declares "Thus saith the Lord:", of course he can do it.

"The Woman's Bible" by Stanton (the entire book) can be found at Sacred-Texts web site.

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