Quote#Wisdom
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to…
Quote bySusan B. Anthony · 1820–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, The History of Woman Suffrage (Hollenbeck Press, Indianapolis, 1902) volume IV, page 263.
English (original)
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
— Susan B. Anthony
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