Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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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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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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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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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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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Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
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I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
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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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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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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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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.
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