Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONEvery truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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.
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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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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.
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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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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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