In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONA government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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 decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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All men & women are created equal.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
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