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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments…?
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Equality Job Responsibility Role Teaching Woman
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
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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Education Great Religious See Togetherness Woman Work
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Health Myself Reason
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Man Oppression Slave Woman
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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Equality History Man Oppression Past Struggle Woman
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
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Change Happiness Misery Peace People Soul
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Civilization Place Society Women
Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.
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Alone Oneself Ourselves See Truth World
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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Book History Moral Myself Teaching Woman
[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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Home Mother Present Role Women
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.
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Angry Beautiful Beauty Love Mother Peace Place Rain Rule Sea Togetherness
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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Memories Oneself Religion Shadow Suffering Young
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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Complete Smooth Surface
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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Human Logic Lose
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Breathe Nature Religion Woman World Yourself

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