Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONCome, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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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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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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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?
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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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