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Quotes Upholding Equality of Sexes Before God
"There is one teacher, namely Christ, and...in his spirit there are no distinctions between persons, nor any reason of age, sex or race that elects some to domination...combatiaveness in family life, whereby man and wife or parents and children strive to assert a supremacy of will, is not compatible with the conviction that there is that of God in everyone."
1972 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Society of Friends (Quakers)
"And though, possibly, an earthly mother may suffer her child to perish, our heavenly Mother Jesus can never suffer us who are his children to perish. For his is almight, all-wisdom and all-love."
Dame Julian of Norwich, Medieval mystic
"I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed for us to occupy."
Sarah Grimke, Quaker abolitionist
"Men who repress in themselves the'feminine' side of their nature will generally...be anti-feminine...The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man. When at last this woman is liberated -- along with the man in every woman--our homes, the churches, and the world, will be much better places. There can no longer be true community between women and men unless that community is based on full equality."
Reverand William Sloane Coffin
"If she have the necessary gifts, and feels herself called by the Spirit to preach, there is not a single word in the whole book of God to restrain her, but many, very many, to urge and encourage her. God says she SHALL do so..."
Catherine Booth, Holiness evangelist
"It is a God-given, blook-bought privilege, and bounden duty of the women as well as the men, to preach the gospel.'"
W. B.Godbey, Methodist evangelist
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