The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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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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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman’s position.
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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.
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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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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
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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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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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