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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Atheist Book Lesson Motivational Nature Religion Teaching
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
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Greatness Life Mom Relationship Wife Woman
Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Civilization Place Society Women
Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
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Ourselves Path Shadow Turn
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
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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Freedom Greatness Hope Ignorance Justice Noble Principle Religion Wrong
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self- sovereignty.
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Character Dignity Oneself Recognition
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
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Age Forever Funny Life Young
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
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Man Oppression Slave Woman
Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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Old Progress Thinking Victory
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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Burn Man Moral Oppression Ourselves Sex Woman
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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Greatness Woman World
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women’s affairs!
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Consistency Human Men Try Woman
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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End Family God Human Togetherness Violence Wisdom
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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Flower Garden Knowledge Satisfaction Simplicity Taste
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
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Action Human Love Peace Soul Thinking

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