Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONThe history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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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 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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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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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
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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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Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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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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Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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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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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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