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.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI 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.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
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One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
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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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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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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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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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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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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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