Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman’s thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhat will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
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God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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