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pulpit quotes

  • If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpit†more refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.

    - Nancy Reagan
      In the NewYorkTimes,10 Mar.

  • Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsfun, fun, fun!and the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

    - Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
      The Heart of the Country,'LoveYour Enemy'.

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