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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONProgress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.
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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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The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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All men & women are created equal.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
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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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