Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONWhen 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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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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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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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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While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned … The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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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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I shall not grow conservative with age.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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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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Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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