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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Atheist Book Lesson Motivational Nature Religion Teaching
Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Design Health Illustration Men Opportunity Possible Sacrifice Woman Work
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Age Forever Funny Life Young
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself
What 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?
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Daughter Father Men Right Suffering Worst
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Human Logic Lose
Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Belief Ideas Law Man Ourselves Religion Right Sex Women
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Memories Oneself Religion Shadow Suffering Young
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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Man Oppression Slave Woman
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Equality Politics Respect
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Civilization Place Society Women
A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Herself Hold Independent Money Woman
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 STANTON

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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Children Ourselves Woman