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“Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.”

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Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.”

“I have sworn upon the altar of god.”

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.”

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Book:Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on

Source: Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on

“It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.”

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Author:Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

“Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.”

“... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.”

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.”

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Author:Herman Melville

“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”

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Author:Voltaire

“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.”

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Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”